Bowling Green Home to State Of The Art Shooting Range

"I thought that it would be the best thing for us to build something this nice for the people of bowling green and surrounding counties, that's family oriented. That's what we wanted to do and that's what we did do," said Walker.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -- Bowling Green is home to the only state of the art, indoor shooting range in the Commonwealth and employees say it's the best indoor range in the country. Walker Arms indoor range has been open for nearly two months, but what makes it state of the art?

Range Manager, Trent Young, says the most important feature is that it does not recirculate air as most indoor ranges do, providing a more mediocre smell and making it healthier for shooters.

"Air comes in and it gets heated or cooled. It goes down range then it gets pulled out and filtered. It is HEPA filtered before it's released back into the atmosphere," said Young.

The range also has LED lighting, interactive targets, and an on sight NRA certified range safety officer at all times. It also has 12 lanes with four by eight foot booths, separated by four inches of concrete on each side.

Many online residents had issues with an indoor range being built in what they considered a residential area. The Bowling Green Planning and Zoning Commission says the building was zoned to be used for indoor entertainment, including shooting ranges. That building was zoned for light industrial, meaning the only stipulation was the building had to be sound proof.

"We had qualified engineers to engineer this range to make sure that the sound proofing was the way it should be by code. Actually, we went even further than that. We've done a lot more insulation and more sealing and things of that nature to make sure it happened," said Claudis Walker, CEO and President of Walker Arms.

Walker said he put a lot of time and money into this project.

"I thought that it would be the best thing for us to build something this nice for the people of Bowling Green and surrounding counties, something that is family oriented. That's what we wanted to do and that's what we did do," said Walker.

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Bowling Green Home to State Of The Art Shooting Range