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Nellis AFB Firing Back at Proposed Gun Range

Some valley residents are trying to shoot down the county's plan to build the world's largest shooting range in their back yards.

They've been fighting for months, but now officials at Nellis Air Force base are voicing their concerns as well.

Nellis Air Force Base officials are concerned their planes could become a casualty of a miss fire from the gun park slated to be built near Iron Mountain and Jones.

The space they need to train is already shrinking as the valley's population grows. So they were forced to redirect their flight paths over that stretch of land where the county is planning on building the park.

Air Force officials say they want to work with the county to make sure their missions won't become a victim of friendly fire and that safeguards are in place to protect the pilots.

Neighbors are up in arms because they say they were never warned about it when they bought their homes. Neighbors say their concerns are being ignored because the county won't do a sound study to see how loud the massive gun range will be.

Now the gun park is in their cross hairs and they hope military concerns will help them shoot down the plan to build the gun range.