Twangbanger
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- Oct 9, 2010
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Big news in the ATA Trapshooting community:
Sparta's World Shooting Complex to close Oct. 1 - KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar Bluff
In 2005, the Amateur Trapshooting Association moved its championship grounds from Vandalia, Ohio to a state-owned location in Illinois, due to space and lease conflicts with the adjacent airport in Ohio. (The tournament requires a very large piece of ground). The move was deeply divisive among the members, in part due to the new location being in an anti-gun state.
Now it looks like funding problems in Illinois have closed the state-owned shooting park, at least temporarily. It apparently costs $3 million a year to run the place. It appears to have fallen into the pinch-point of a contentious Republican/Democrat budget fight.
Oy...headache. This is what you get for trusting the State of Illinois with anything.
Sparta's World Shooting Complex to close Oct. 1 - KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar Bluff
In 2005, the Amateur Trapshooting Association moved its championship grounds from Vandalia, Ohio to a state-owned location in Illinois, due to space and lease conflicts with the adjacent airport in Ohio. (The tournament requires a very large piece of ground). The move was deeply divisive among the members, in part due to the new location being in an anti-gun state.
Now it looks like funding problems in Illinois have closed the state-owned shooting park, at least temporarily. It apparently costs $3 million a year to run the place. It appears to have fallen into the pinch-point of a contentious Republican/Democrat budget fight.
Oy...headache. This is what you get for trusting the State of Illinois with anything.