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8 person. The question for me is how we address that remaining 1%, the loose cannons. Mr. Hunnellsaid that he wished Forrest Orr were present totalk about what is working and not working well with regards to hunting. In Pennsylvania, he said, heavily populated areas such as Bucks County have restrictions, such as you can only use a shotgun for deer hunting, but otherwise all across the state –which is probably representative of the density of our community here --on the opening day of deer season you have almost a million people out hunting in the woods and you almost never have people getting shot out in woods. That’s a statistic that can be looked up. Most people are responsible when they are hunting. Mr. Tesoro said that what’s working well is that responsible gun owners are responsible. We know this because according to the 9-1-1 data there is not a lot of errant rounds. An errant round is mineuntil it stops, he added. If my errant round hits someone else’s house then that’s my responsibility. Is there already a law in place to reinforce this? That must be working well too, he said, shooters taking responsibility for their errant rounds. Ms. Conti asked how that responsibility is determined, how someone can know to whom an errant round belongs. Mr. Tesoro said that others might not, but that the responsible gun owner will know where his bullets have ended up. Ms. Conti then explained her situation. For years, she said, she has been living next to a shooting rangelocated behind her propertyon Ford Road in Bingham Township. I’m hearing 1500 rounds over the course of a weekend, she said. I don’t know how many people are shooting back there, but it’s a lot. Apparently the property owner, Mr. Butch Klein, has opened the range to whoever in his trailer park wants to shoot. It’s too many people for it to be just this man and his family, she said.I thought surely this ammunition is expensive and it’s got to come to an end, but it doesn’t. It happens at 8:00 on Sunday mornings, in spite of the traditional stopping time for church that people here have described. That’s not working in our neighborhood. My grandchildren are out there, they’re terrified and I’m terrified for them. And there are all different kinds of weapons. So, who knows what’s safe? As I gather, she said, there are no regulations in place by which Orange County can govern the operation of this shooting range --and I’m not sure about this –unless it were public. We’ve not been able to come up witha solution to this situation. I liked the idea of having a neighborhood chat, but that did not work. I appreciate