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Firearms Facilities Acess Act
Firearms Facilities Access Act
Author: Harold W. Bolinger, (Under Contract with Gun Owners Foundation)
Applicability: To require governmental units controlling firearms training facilities to open same for public use.
Firearms Facility Access Act
WHEREAS, The citizens of (name of state) are duty-bound under both common law and statute to assist in the preservation of order in society, and may be called into actual service to this state by the executive authority thereof, or by a sheriff, to assist in the suppression of insurrection, rebellion or criminal conduct; and
WHEREAS, all property owned and maintained by and under the authority of state and local governments is, in reality, common property of the citizens of this state.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED THAT all persons statutorily qualified to be called into service by the executive or law enforcement powers of this state are therefore entitled to have access to any public firearms training facilities and ranges used by the police or military units of this state or any political subdivision thereof.
1. Nothing shall prevent the governmental unit having control over any such facility from establishing operating hours and priority access for scheduled and required training exercises involving officers actually employed by police and sheriff's departments and military units in this state.
2. Nothing in this section shall prevent the governmental unit having control over any such facility from establishing reasonable user fees to offset any costs of staffing, supervising and maintaining such facilities for public use.
WITHIN 60 days of the date of passage of this act, each governmental unit owning a firearms training facility shall cause to be published a plan for the public use of their facility.
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