Local gun club searches for a new home

Members of West Virginia’s Sportsman’s Gun Club thought they had lost their home when highway officials routed a four-lane expansion through their trap and skeet fields.

When the road went another direction, club members breathed a huge sigh of relief — a bit prematurely, as it turned out.

On Oct. 22, club officials received a letter. The letter informed them that the FMC Sportsmen’s Club, the leaseholder for the gun club’s property, had voted to terminate the lease. FMC officials gave no reason for the decision.

My Sunday Gazette-Mail column lays out the entire story.

The bottom line is that the gun club will need to relocate. Finding an appropriate property within a 20- to 25-mile radius of Charleston probably won’t be easy.