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John Gallagher: When you drive down the gravel private road from the pavement to our property, part way through 1 <br />that route on the right hand side is access to the undeveloped 34 acres and these photographs are of the place 2 <br />where people pull in, park, open this up and go in to engage in those shooting activities. 3 <br /> 4 <br />T.C. Morphis: This is the entrance to the shooting range? 5 <br /> 6 <br />John Gallagher: That’s it. 7 <br /> 8 <br />T.C. Morphis: With barricades and no trespassing signs? 9 <br /> 10 <br />John Gallagher: That is right. 11 <br /> 12 <br />T.C. Morphis: Is that, in your estimation, look to be a path suitable for vehicles? 13 <br /> 14 <br />John Gallagher: Yeah, vehicles do drive through there. 15 <br /> 16 <br />T.C. Morphis: Like to get to the facilities? 17 <br /> 18 <br />John Gallagher: There is definitely an entrance and there is definitely a route in. 19 <br /> 20 <br />David Blankfard: Looks like a running trail. 21 <br /> 22 <br />T.C. Morphis: I’m not going to try …. You can certainly ask the witness. Mr. Gallagher, I would like for you to turn to 23 <br />Exhibit 8 please. First page of Exhibit 8, for explanation to the board, is a list, a spreadsheet I have prepared of all 24 <br />the sheriff’s departments reports that we received. I made a publics records request and after this spreadsheet are 25 <br />photocopies of all the sheriff’s reports we received. There are 13 in total. Mr. Gallagher, did you ever call the 26 <br />sheriff’s department about any of these? 27 <br /> 28 <br />John Gallagher: Yes I have. 29 <br /> 30 <br />T.C. Morphis: About how many times did you call the sheriff’s department? 31 <br /> 32 <br />John Gallagher: I’ve only called the sheriff’s department twice. My wife has probably called eight or ten times. 33 <br /> 34 <br />T.C. Morphis: Sounds like almost a dozen times, your family. 35 <br /> 36 <br />John Gallagher: Something like that. 37 <br /> 38 <br />T.C. Morphis: Have you called recently or your wife? 39 <br /> 40 <br />John Gallagher: No. 41 <br /> 42 <br />T.C. Morphis: Why not? 43 <br /> 44 <br />John Gallagher: We were told by the sheriff’s department that noise violations didn’t give the authority to act in these 45 <br />cases and that it is legal to shoot on your property and they really didn’t have any basis for bringing it to a stop. They 46 <br />asked us to keep a log of the days and times when we heard shooting and the start and stop duration of those 47 <br />events. We kept those logs for a couple of months and turned them over to them and we never saw any action as a 48 <br />result. 49 <br /> 50 <br />26