GRNC Update Alert: Pitt Co. Thinks it can Fool You!

Even if you called and e-mailed the Pitt Co. Commissioners last week, please do it again!

Last week GRNC issued an alert against a Pitt County discharge ordinance that would make it virtually impossible for citizens to shoot on their own property. The Pitt Co. Commissioners then tried to curry favor by exempting “licensed” instructors which, of course, do not exist.


After you nailed them for that, Pitt Co. played a shell game, devising a brand new version of the ordinance which looks pretty, but is actually worse than their original proposal, apparently thinking they can fool you into allowing them to ban shooting on private property.


Regardless of where you live, GRNC needs you to immediately CALL & EMAIL Pitt County Commissioners and demand that they stop continued efforts to restrict shooting on private property. This is a malicious contagion which must be stopped before it spreads to other counties.

What the latest version of Ordinance 8 does:

  • Bans shooting within 300 ft. of virtually any structure, subject only to nearly impossible exemptions;
  • Requires you to get permission to shoot within 300 ft. of a neighboring property structure (try that with the New Jersey transplant who build a McMansion next to your property);  
  • Creates an “exemption” that, in the end, applies only to concealed handgun instructors certified by the NC Criminal Justice & Training Standards Commission, and even then only during the conduct of a commercial business; and
  • Bans all public and PRIVATE "shooting ranges" unless they comply with expensive and difficult NRA requirements.
The net result could be a virtual ban on shooting on private property. Worse, Pitt Co. Commissioners have tried to bury their latest subterfuge in a maze of intentionally opaque regulations as follows:

(1) The range has to meet requirements of Zoning Ordinance 14, which requires it to meet NRA standards;

(2) Ordinance 14 Ordinance 14 requires that it meet both NRA range requirements and the requirements of its own shooting range Ordinance 9; and

(3) Ordinance 9 applies all of those requirements to PRIVATE shooting ranges, also requiring you to carry $500,000 in liability insurance.

Voila. A near-complete ban on shooting on private property, all without you knowing what they passed.

The commissioners will claim an exemption for “a person target shooting on his own property” but, in truth, if you hang targets or designate a firing line, you become a prohibited “shooting range.”


IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED!


  • CALL & EMAIL PITT CO. COMMISSIONERS: If you called last week, please do it again!  Using the contact information and copy-and-paste message below, you can make your outrage heard to these meddling bureaucrats.

  • ATTEND THE NOV. 4 MEETING: The Pitt Co. Commission plans to vote on the ordinance on Nov. 4. We must pack this meeting with angry gun voters.  The meeting will be held at 6:00 PM at the Pitt County Office Building, 1717 W 5th St, Commissioners’ Auditorium, Greenville, NC 27834. A GRNC representative will be at the meeting.

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CONTACT INFO

 

Copy & paste list: (Note: The copy and paste list does not include Commissioner Lauren White, who opposes the ordinance. To express your thanks for her opposition, you may email her at her e-mail address listed below.)

tom.coulson1214@gmail.com; ann.floydhuggins@pittcountync.gov; benji.holloman@pittcountync.gov; king2006mac@yahoo.com; Chris.Nunnally@gmail.com; pittcounty.commissionerd2@gmail.com; mark.smith@pittcountync.gov; bwardelizabeth@gmail.com 


Phone numbers (all numbers 252 area code):

Tom Coulson, 321-2942; Ann Huggins, 757-1444; Benji Holloman, 714-6311; Melvin McLawhorn, 327-6559; Chris Nunnally, 917-7374; Mary Perkins-Williams, 751-6686; Mark Smith, 916-5171; Beth Ward, 355-7724; 


Lauren Already Opposes the ban: So please give her your appreciation Lauren White, 341-5522, lauren.white@pittcountync.gov 

 

DELIVER THIS MESSAGE

Suggested Subject: "Oppose ‘Discharge of Firearms Ordinance’" 


 

Dear: Pitt County Commissioners:

I strongly urge you to oppose the proposed “Discharge of Firearms Ordinance” as a meddling political response to irresponsible activity affecting a very small area of Pitt County. The fact that your sheriff refuses to enforce existing law does not justify restrictions on the ability of lawful citizens to shoot on private property. 


In your latest shell game, you attempt to hide a near-complete ban on shooting on private property behind a maze of intentionally opaque regulations and requirements. Rest assured that citizens can see through your subterfuge.


Please be aware that I will be closely monitoring your actions through Grass Roots North Carolina legislative alerts.


Respectfully,

Insert your name here

 

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