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Liberty University Opens New Gun Range for Students

Liberty University Opens New Gun Range for Students
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Tuesday, 27 March 2018 10:36 AM EDT

As schools across the nation wrestle with how to keep firearms off campus, Liberty University has opened a new gun range for students to brush up on their shooting skills.

The range, built at cost of $3.2 million, opened on Monday and is currently available only to students of the Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia, WSET-TV reports.

But it will open to the public and law enforcement officers following commencement in May.

"What's unique about this facility is it's the only range on any college campus that has venues for all Olympic shooting sports. The rest of the world is moving away from the Second Amendment and the shooting sports," Brad Butler, a planning coordinator at Liberty, said in a recent interview.

"We are engaging our students, giving them safe and convenient opportunities to compete, and to learn the right way to handle a firearm."

Liberty head coach Dave Hartman added: "There are hundreds of thousands of youth in our country that love the shooting sports. Where do they go when they get done shooting in high school?

"We have a rare opportunity here. It is truly my hope and dream that we use this range as a platform to plant seeds all over the country in shooting sports and Christianity."

The facility consists of a main shotgun range which includes a five-stand, a super sporting clay setup, and a bunker equipped with 15 clay trap machines.

Liberty University made headlines in August 2016, when it announced that students would be allowed to keep guns in their dorm rooms, The College Fix reports.

Liberty, the largest Christian university in the world, was founded by Jerry Falwell in 1971.

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As schools across the nation wrestle with how to keep firearms off campus, Liberty University has opened a new gun range for students to brush up on their shooting skills.
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