Our vacation house is in a rural area on 20 acres. A neighboring family - both lawyers - is staunchly anti-gun / anti-hunting. They have even attached a “No Hunting - Don’t Even Ask! sign to a county speed limit sign.
I have the perfect area to build a small private range with natural backstops and sound suppression. I have not - all it would take to have all my guns confiscated (and me arrested!) would be for them to dig in the backstop, find a few bullets, then throw one through one of their windows, and call the cops...
So your neigbors have won. They have stopped you with out fireing a shot to say.
I have made sure to develop ranges on all my property and to shoot on them.
>>I have the perfect area to build a small private range with natural backstops and sound suppression. I have not - all it would take to have all my guns confiscated (and me arrested!) would be for them to dig in the backstop, find a few bullets, then throw one through one of their windows, and call the cops...<<
Anchor a piece of chain link fencing across the soil of your backstop. Then cover it with an inch of sand. That will keep anyone from digging and retrieving your spent bullets.