Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, the House Local Government Committee is scheduled to hear SB 176, an important bill that establishes safeguards for Indiana’s private and public shooting ranges, ensuring they remain protected from arbitrary closure. This important bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate, 75 to 38.
The Importance of Shooting Infrastructure
Shooting ranges are important to sportsmen and firearm owners because they provide critical infrastructure that supports public safety, conservation, and education. Use the Take Action button to email the committee members and urge them to support SB 176.
Key Provisions of SB 176
SB 176 seeks to:
- Strengthen firearm preemption by prohibiting local governments (counties, cities, or towns) from adopting or enforcing any planning, zoning, or land-use ordinance that is more stringent than state law regarding shooting ranges.
- Restrict local permitting power by preventing local units from imposing conditions for permits or approvals that would place higher burdens on the establishment, use, or maintenance of a shooting range than those already established by the state.
- Ensure consistency by ensuring a uniform standard across the state, preventing local municipalities from “regulating shooting ranges out of existence”.
How to Support Indiana Sportsmen
Don’t forget to share this alert with your family, friends, and fellow sportsmen. Urge them to use the Take Action button to email committee members to support SB 176.
There has never been a more crucial time in sportsmen’s history than now to be involved and engaged in protecting our way of life. If we remain silent, others will shape the outcome. We cannot allow that to happen in Indiana. Urge your family and friends to join you and the Sportsmen’s Alliance in the fight against the rising tide of animal extremism and gun control activism.
Defending Our Outdoor Legacy
Sportsmen are no longer just stewards of the land, water, and our cherished natural resources. We ARE the frontline defenders of a way of life increasingly under scrutiny. The legacy of hunting, fishing, and trapping depends on our actions today.
The Sportsmen’s Alliance guarantees hunting, fishing, and trapping for the American sportsman now and forever. We’re there when sportsmen need us most. We are the only organization specifically created to protect the individual hunter, angler, and trapper – no matter the threat. We will never compromise when it comes to defending our way of life in the courts, in the legislatures, in the public square, and at the ballot box. We make this promise to the American sportsman: we will never give up and never give in while proudly securing our future against those seeking to destroy our values, beliefs, and traditions. Stay connected to Sportsmen’s Alliance: Online, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
