Ms. Misty,
I've been reading this post with interest, as you live in one of what I consider to be one of the most desirable spots in FL left to live. I've been in FL for 50 years, so I may know "a little" about that. One of my dear departed Dad's best friends lives not far away from you on a tributary off the river, across from the old fish camp, if you know where I mean. The names will remain nameless.
The way I see it, you can boil your problem down into 2 bullet points.
1. You live in one of the last red counties / holdouts of personal freedom that have a desirable mix of rural vs urban in Florida.
2. That makes it difficult to remove people's rights via new laws, or even litigation.
Note to you: Wish you hadn't started the references to your body, because you opened a pandora's box to criticism and humor at your expense. Please don't do that to yourself in front of a judge or a jury of your peers. The pushback from other jealous females alone would be enough to sink your initiative. Watched one of my ex-gf's make that same mistake from a close-up and personal distance and it ended up costing her dearly. It would be a silent attack, and you'd never be able to prove anything.
Personally, I wouldn't want a range like that behind my house, either. Especially, with disregard to the direction of fire and the condition of the berm. Many moons ago, I saw a friend have a fair bit of trouble for an errant round from a large caliber handgun ricocheting off a steel target and hitting someone much farther away than your house is from that neighbor's range.
On the + side for you, that range may never be completed now. It's kinda smelling that way.
All legalese aside, I wish you and your family the best of health.
Thanks truly appreciate your feedback and wish you the best.
It is not our intent to shut down private ranges either I wish people could read that portion, if you're a local, then you know we hear shots every night out here and you rarely hear a complaint from anyone out here. There is a guy over one block that is AG shoot nightly and it's like 2nd nature you don't even blink at it anymore but he did his safely, he is on AG zoning he aimed it away from everyone and our guy did the total opposite and aimed his at everyone. A few homes asked him to just turn it and he just didn't want to do that because he felt he could only go 75 yards then rather than 100 yds so then we said well reverse it and aim it at your home the distance would still be 100 yards, nope didn't want to do that either. Had he turned it, most the folks I have met out here are super nice and all greeted us, we probably would've skipped the typical wine basket welcome and sent an ammo and target sheet basket and shot with him.
I do you think you may be correct as well as far as completion of it between the litigation coming as well as he has a mortgage on the home and the bank isn't going to like that liability we were told. I'm not sure how he planned to get past final inspection without them noticing. No home owner's insurance is going to want to pick this up with a litigation against it, especially multi- family litigation.
Have a happy Memorial Day weekend
