The following is the story of one gun club's search to build a range for its members and how the NRA Foundation and Friends of NRA can help. From Brett Nachtigall of the Hot Springs Star:

Gun Club sets sights on new shooting range

Currently Hot Springs area hunters and shooting enthusiasts do not have a designated area in which they can sight in long-range rifles or shoot for recreation.

However, that does not mean those types of activities do not currently go on, as area firearms owners simply seek out any number of various public areas to do so within the Black Hills National Forest, on state-owned land atop Battle Mountain or along old Hwy. 79 near the Cheyenne River bridge or elsewhere.

The problem with that practice, according to members of the newly formed Fall River Gun Club, is that it is neither safe nor good for the environment to have such a wide variety of random locations throughout the area where people are discharging firearms.

The Fall River Gun Club (FRGC), which currently has 43 paid members, says they hope to change all of that by securing land and then acquiring grant funds to develop a shooting range that is not only safe and environmentally friendly, but open to the public in order to provide a recreational activity for area families to enjoy year round.

“What we are trying to do is put together an NRA (National Rifle Association) approved gun range,” said club Vice President Jeff Shannon at a recent FRGC meeting held at the American Legion in Hot Springs on March 30.

Read the rest of the article at the Hot Springs Star here.