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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3181163" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p><a href="http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/Index.asp?ftdb=STOKST63&level=1" target="_blank">Title 63 over at OSCN</a>; scroll down to sections 701-709, and have a look at 709 and 709.1, which were part of the same set of law as 709.2 until being repealed (if you click through the section number, then click on "repealed document available," you'll see the old text). "Shooting ranges" were defined as allowing persons to "fire a weapon for a fee or other consideration." Property you already own would fall outside that definition.</p><p></p><p>There doesn't appear to have been a replacement definition enacted, so the law is murky there, but I'd be careful depending upon 63 O.S. 709.2 as an absolute bar to suits since, in the context in which it was passed, your own land wouldn't be a "shooting range" within the meaning of the act.</p><p></p><p>Similarly, <a href="http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=465940" target="_blank">76 O.S. 50.6</a> doesn't provide a solid definition of "gun range," but links them with "gun club" and "gun shop;" it also groups "owner" with "employee, participant, member, guest or customer" of those establishments, which <em>seems</em> to contemplate a formal operation--think OKC Gun Club, TCGC, or (on the commercial side) Banner Road (folks outside the OKC area, you're on your own for examples).</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying that those laws definitely don't protect your personal range, just that there's enough ambiguity to make it uncertain. Unfortunately, there's no caselaw listed in those statutes to clarify (OSCN has links to relevant cases right under the text of the statute when the courts have made definitive rulings).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3181163, member: 13624"] [URL='http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/Index.asp?ftdb=STOKST63&level=1']Title 63 over at OSCN[/URL]; scroll down to sections 701-709, and have a look at 709 and 709.1, which were part of the same set of law as 709.2 until being repealed (if you click through the section number, then click on "repealed document available," you'll see the old text). "Shooting ranges" were defined as allowing persons to "fire a weapon for a fee or other consideration." Property you already own would fall outside that definition. There doesn't appear to have been a replacement definition enacted, so the law is murky there, but I'd be careful depending upon 63 O.S. 709.2 as an absolute bar to suits since, in the context in which it was passed, your own land wouldn't be a "shooting range" within the meaning of the act. Similarly, [URL='http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=465940']76 O.S. 50.6[/URL] doesn't provide a solid definition of "gun range," but links them with "gun club" and "gun shop;" it also groups "owner" with "employee, participant, member, guest or customer" of those establishments, which [I]seems[/I] to contemplate a formal operation--think OKC Gun Club, TCGC, or (on the commercial side) Banner Road (folks outside the OKC area, you're on your own for examples). I'm not saying that those laws definitely don't protect your personal range, just that there's enough ambiguity to make it uncertain. Unfortunately, there's no caselaw listed in those statutes to clarify (OSCN has links to relevant cases right under the text of the statute when the courts have made definitive rulings). [/QUOTE]
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