Extended shooting restrictions in Utah County, Utah.   Jorg
Nysgerrig August 8, 2007, 01:31 PM  Wildfires: No smoking gun
JOE PYRAH - Daily Herald Utah County commissioners are not sure
exactly how flying bullets cause fires. But on Tuesday they
renewed a ban on the use of firearms in unincorporated areas
anyway, saying that bullets appear to be to blame for a number
of blazes.  In July, commissioners decided that seven fires this
year were caused by bullet ricochets, and they imposed a ban. On
Tuesday they renewed that ban through August.  "We've spent over
a million bucks already and we don't have any more to spend,"
said Commissioner Gary Anderson about firefighting costs that
supposedly could be traced to shooters. At the same time, he's
disappointed that he hasn't been able to take family members
shooting in the Lake Mountain area on the west side of Utah Lake
because of the ban.  Nobody offered any scientific evidence that
Joe Gun Owner's 25-cent bullet could spark a million-dollar
grass fire. But the r