KENNESAW, Ga. — Handling guns is serious business at the Governors Gun Club in Powder Springs. Safety is paramount and business is booming with plans to grow into "Guntown USA."
"Here we are, Kennesaw known for our gun ordinance and never had a gun range in our city," said Kennesaw Mayor Mark Mathews.
A 1982 ordinance in the books says everyone in Kennesaw should own a gun, or not.
Now, a six-acre parcel of land at the corner of Kennesaw Due West Road and U.S. 41 is awaiting a $10 million transformation.
"This site got involved in the recession just like a lot of other properties," Mathews said.
For the past eight years, the land has sat open and empty.
"Because you've got the planes, you got the airport, you got a train track, the industrial park right behind you. It's really not suitable for residential," Mathews said.
It is, however, the perfect place for the people behind Governors Gun Club to branch out and do it in a way never before done in the country.
"The indoor trap and skeet is something totally different," said gun range designer Bert Brown, with the EGAD Group.
Renderings for an 83,000 square foot facility boast indoor trap and skeet alongside more typical "guntry" club offerings.
"It really creates a community that's well educated and knows how to handle a firearm properly and so makes for a safer community," Brown said.
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