[Lucas McCain]

Fella's it isn't quite that simple. I used to belong to a gun club that was on 242 acres in a rural area, and we were 30 some miles from a metro area. Next to us on one side was Honeywell corp. and they had several thousand acres where they tested bombs for the military. Now we had already been pushed off our original club range by urban sprawl and noise complaints. So we thought we were far enough out in a rural area with a township board government who welcomed us with open arms. After 20 some years houses started to pop up and move towards us. We saw and understood the problem that was coming to us concerning noise. Being proactive we bought up acreage all around us and gave us a 1/4 mile buffer zone around the club. Looked like a good solution,huh.
The population of the township grew, our club was also growing with a good share of the members were from the same township. We had excellent range facilities, hosted olympic try outs, northstar games, various regional matches in quite a few disciplines. The range was made available to the local sheriffs dept. Rented out to several metro law enforcement agencies, and a federal agency.
Then because the population had grown so much the township government became a city government with mayors, aldermen and politics. The city looks at us, and they see all this acreage (517 acres now), and the amount of taxes that they could have if homes were built there on a 1/2 acre each.
Now the city passed an ordinance, which put us under a conditional use permit. Now we were pushed into hiring a lawyer, going to court and costing the club a bundle trying to get grandfathered in, but the city prevailed
Note the government agency that we rented the range to for practice and qualification. One of their training course's was full automatic weapons. That drew the ire of some citizens and the complaint was brought forward at the city council meeting, and they were going to revoke our conditional use permit. Well we had to stop the federal agency from using full automatic weapons, and we are in court fighting to keep the conditional use permit.
Note I said that Honeywell had property next to us that tested bombs. Huge explosions could be heard any time of the day or night there. Evidently Honeywell had a better and larger bunch of lawyers on their payroll and the city left them alone. They claimed they were grandfathered in. That maybe, but we found out from council records that noise complaints had been made about Honeywell, but the city didn't act on it.
End of story, that info helped save the day. We got to keep our permit, but the club is on a very slippery slope and at the mercy of city politics.
So if I were in your situation, that lady maybe a nut job, and she may have moved in after the range was their, but emotional politics can get you kicked out and it will cost plenty when you try to fight it.