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Attachment 4 <br /> 7 <br /> SARA A. CONTI <br /> ATTORNEY AT LAW <br /> POST OFFICE BOX 939 <br /> • <br /> TELEPHONE CARRBORO,NORTH CAROLINA 27510 OFFICE ADDRESS <br /> (919)967-3375 1117 HERON POND DRIVE <br /> CHAPEL HILL,NORTH CAROLINA 27516 <br /> E-MAIL <br /> saraconti@bellsouth.ne1 <br /> November 4,2016 <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> Attn: Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board <br /> Post Office Box 8 i i <br /> Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br /> Re: Firearms Safety and Noise Committee <br /> Dear Commissioners: <br /> I appreciate having been appointed to the Firearms Safety and Noise Committee ("the <br /> Committee") and would like to provide my comments on the work of the Committee in writing. <br /> It was commendable that the Board of County Coinmissioners ("BOCC") chose to <br /> address the issues of firearm safety and noise, as countless other counties throughout North <br /> Carolina have done. I understand that the hope of the BOCC, at the outset, was that a fair <br /> compromise of interests could be reached between the gun community and the rest of Orange <br /> County, after resistance was presented to regulations proposed earlier this year. <br /> However, in an effort t'o make any proposal More acceptable to the gun community, the <br /> BOCC appointed a committee of eight voting members, only two of whom are not part of the <br /> gun community. Those other.six committee members, for the most part, began the discussion of <br /> an ordinance with the opinion that there is no gun safety problem in Orange County and no need <br /> G-;,1;nance. <br /> The Committee ultimately decided that since we had been tasked with addressing an <br /> issue that is important to all Orange County residents, shooters and non-shooters, an ordinance <br /> might be appropriate. At the outset, the Committee was provided by the gun community with a <br /> copy of the Lenoir County Ordinance, which was actually denominated as an Orange County <br /> ordinance, in hopes that we would follow the Lenoir County lead. I have enclosed a copy of that <br /> "Orange County" ordinance for your benefit. <br /> There are numerous other gun ordinances in North Carolina, most of which, including the <br /> Lenoir County version, address issues that were not covered by our Committee, such as the issue <br /> of distance. How far must you be from a dwelling before ycu shoot a firearm? Five hundred feet <br /> in Catawba County., 150 yards in Guilford County, 1,000 feet in Hoke County, 100 yards in <br /> • <br />