Regional Public Safety Firearms Training Center
The Regional Public Safety Firearms Training Center (or Albemarle County Firearms Training Facility) is a $4.5M 19,000 square foot firing range and firearms training center located in southern Albemarle County, open as of March 2021.[1] An initial decision to locate the facility outdoors in Keene was overturned by the Board of Supervisors in August after an outcry from southern residents of the county. $2.9 million in funding for the project was granted to the county from the Virginia attorney general's office. The project is a joint venture of the University of Virginia and the Albemarle County and Charlottesville police departments.[2]
Neighbors and the Piedmont Environmental Council were opposed because the land is in the county's rural area.[3]
References
- ↑ https://www.cbs19news.com/story/41894520/gun-firing-range-ready-for-use-in-albemarle-county
- ↑ Web. State gift will go a long way toward police firing range, J. Reynolds Hutchins, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, December 22, 2013, retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ Web. City, county reiterate support of Keene shooting range, Aaron Richardson, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, November 10, 2012, retrieved November 29, 2012.