Regional Public Safety Firearms Training Center

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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

  1. https://www.cbs19news.com/story/41894520/gun-firing-range-ready-for-use-in-albemarle-county
  2. 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.
  3. Web. City, county reiterate support of Keene shooting range, Aaron Richardson, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, November 10, 2012, retrieved November 29, 2012.