The Bureau of Land Management is responding to pleas from some Utah County homeowners who say target shooting on West Mountain has increased and is endangering their lives.
Taylor has lived on Lake Road for nearly 27 years. He said in the last three years, his home and farm had been hit 20 times by stray bullets coming over West Mountain.
"If you're hearing shots, it's scary because you don't know where the shots are going," he expressed.Taylor's farm is just one of more than a dozen in the area damaged by stray bullets. Fortunately, nobody has been hurt. "It really bothers me that want to wait until that happens to correct the problem – no, I want it corrected before that happens," said Larson. "I think we're being ignored. I think we, the people, are not getting the say we should have in our local area."
Wall said target shooters can be held liable for any property damage they cause. And if someone gets accidentally shot, they could potentially face criminal charges. "As we patrol, we're looking at the location, the backstop, and the kind of target they're shooting at, whether or not it's something that can break, fragment, shatter or explode; those are typically some of the targets we do not want to shoot," said Camm Stephenson, chief ranger for the BLM West Desert District.
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