What Happened to Chicago's Rifle Ranges?

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🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Rifle sport shooting was once so popular in the city that even ComEd and schools had competitive teams. Today, there's not a range in sight.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.7	What school's the...
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.3	Why they give the look?
0:11.2	What is this?
0:13.6	It's a curious city.
0:14.8	Where WBEZ answers your questions...
0:17.5	About Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.4	I'm reporter Ellen Mayer.
0:22.2	There's a lot of talk about guns in Chicago.
0:25.4	We talk about gun violence and we talk about gun laws.
0:28.9	But we don't talk a lot about gun sports.
0:31.5	When the shooter isn't aiming at another human being,
0:34.2	they're aiming for the center of a paper target.
0:36.8	And that's exactly what this week's question
0:38.4	is about. It comes from a guy named Bob Collar, who lives in Homewood in the south suburbs.
0:43.5	I used to shoot small bar rifle, and there were ranges in the Chicago area within the city
0:50.4	limits that I used to go to. I'm just wondering what happened to those ranges.
0:55.0	Small boar rifle isn't just a kind of gun. It's also a competitive sport with teams and trophies and national rankings.
1:02.0	And Bob says it used to happen all over Chicago.
1:05.0	Kodak Labs had a range. University of Chicago had a range. There were two armories in Chicago that we shot at.
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