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We’ve followed the saga of the Blue Trail Shooting Range up in Connecticut for a while now. Â It seems there’s a new twist in this sorry story that’s very strange. Â It would seem our villain this story, Pat DiNatale, who argued that the reservoir adjacent to the Blue Trail range was contaminated with lead, is … Continue reading “Odd News on Blue Trail Range”
This time DiNatale, the developer who has been trying to gt Blue Trail shut down for a while now, is using the lead issue to try to get his way: Tests commissioned by a Durham man who is suing the Blue Trail firing range in Wallingford show high concentrations of lead from bullets on land … Continue reading “Blue Trail Range in Trouble Again”
Blue Trail Range has been out of the news lately, but it looks like it’s still operating with its safety improvements. We’ve blogged about their trials and tribulations often here. Reader TacDriver ran some ballistic calculations on the range, based on topographical data. As results indicated, the house that complained about being hit is in … Continue reading “Blue Trail Range Update”
I think by the time Blue Trail Shooting Range puts this nightmare behind them, it might well be one of the most studied range in the country. The town of Durham is now harassing them funding a new safety study of the range. Blue Trail is the only public outdoor shooting range left in all … Continue reading “Yet Another Blue Trail Range Safety Study”
This article is fairly balanced for the Times reporting on a firearms issue, but I notice they fail to mention that DiNatale is a developer looking to develop property around the range. My own ballistic analysis of Blue Trail a while ago revaled that DiNatale’s property was in the ballistic shadow of the mountain. The … Continue reading “Blue Trail Range In the New York Times”
The Courant is demanding BlueTrail be closed: Mr. Lyman’s negligence should no longer be permitted to jeopardize the safety of families in Durham and hikers who use a popular trail just beyond the range. That state and local officials have tacitly allowed Mr. Lyman to mismanage Blue Trail for so long is an inexcusable dereliction … Continue reading “Blue Trail Under Fire”
Looks like a state police investigation has determined the bullets that were hitting houses had to have come from Blue Trail: “It’s the same report every single time,” Pasquale “Pat” DiNatale, a Durham homeowner whose property has been struck by bullets over the years, said Friday. “It’s always the same conclusion, but no one ever … Continue reading “Blue Trail Back in the News”
The Blue Trail range fundraiser, to help raise money for their mounting legal bills, was a great success. One of the gun bloggers managed to attend: One thing of note that concerned me. (And I apologize if this offends anyone.) But I was rather distraught by the general age of the attendees. Many being what … Continue reading “Blue Trail Range Fundraiser”
Blue Trail Range is opening the 100 yard firing line today, with approval from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. “We reached this conclusion as a result of our careful assessment of the many physical improvements that have been made to the 100-yard shooting area at Blue Trail and improvements in operating procedures that the … Continue reading “Blue Trail Opens Today”
Blue Trail is the last public outdoor range in Connecticuit. It would be a horrible loss to the shooting community to lose it. After bringing in experts to verify that the houses that claimed to be hit could not have been, it would seem that developer Pat DiNatale is taking up a new approach: lead. … Continue reading “More Trouble for Blue Trail”