{"id":16812,"date":"2012-09-04T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2012-09-06T08:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:38:38","slug":"colorado-firing-range-funds-renovation-through-friends-of-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/colorado-firing-range-funds-renovation-through-friends-of-nra\/16812\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado firing range funds renovation through Friends of NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Money from Colorado Friends of NRA events goes to local projects<\/h1>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16865\" title=\"coloradofiringrange\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/coloradofiringrange.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/coloradofiringrange.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/coloradofiringrange-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Photo courtesy Summit Daily \/ Paige Blankenbuehler<\/div>\n<p>Last month the <a href=\"http:\/\/summitrange.org\/default.html\" target=\"_blank\">Summit County Shooting Range<\/a> near Dillon, Colorado, reopened to the public after undergoing a thorough renovation.<\/p>\n<p>These renovations would not have been possible without the help of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofnra.org\">Friends of NRA<\/a><\/em>, who generously awarded the range with a grant to improve the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, <em>Friends of NRA<\/em>, a grassroots fundraising program for the support of the shooting sports, has given two grants to the range totaling $22,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriends of NRA is glad to have helped the Summit County Shooting Range with their renovations,&#8221; NRA Field Representative Gwen Chermack told us. &#8220;Thanks to these changes, gun enthusiasts can continue to exercise their Second Amendment rights in a clean, safe environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/summitrange.org\/html\/overview.html\">Featuring a 50-yard pistol range, 100-yard rifle range and a trap field<\/a>, shooters may enjoy a number of different firearms at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The ranges, which will continue to be free and open to the public, spent much of the grant cleaning the grounds, which were beginning to become unsafe as a result of trash dumped by visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Maintaining the cleanliness of the facility is the ticket to keeping it open in the future and has become a top priority to the volunteers and staff from a nearby landfill who monitor the range.<\/p>\n<p>The funds for this grant came from local NRA supporters in Colorado and is one of the great reasons the shooting sports will continue thanks to <em>Friends of NRA<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to help fund projects like these in your area? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofnra.org\/National.aspx?cid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Find a <em>Friends of NRA<\/em> event near you<\/a> and ensure the future of the shooting sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the Summit County Shooting Range near Dillon, Colorado, reopened to the public after undergoing a thorough renovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2624,2623],"class_list":["post-16812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-friends-of-nra","tag-nrablog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}