Infringed: The Truth about the attacks on Kitsap Rifle & Revolver Club, Part 1 The High-Level View

Last Edit: 9/13/2025

Part 2: The Warning Signs

The atrocious way Kitsap County has been attacking this club for over a dozen years was more recently called “a playbook” by the leaders of neighboring Jefferson County as they went after a tactical training business. This “playbook” could be employed by any power-hungry city or county officials anywhere in the nation—including near you.

The two county-filed lawsuits and injunctions we’ve been fighting for years is all about re-zoning for developers. The surprises in this stinky pot of stew come in the meat and potatoes themselves. The lies and tactics of various departments in this county will enrage many of you, but they should concern every American who thinks government serves us, not the other way around. They’ll read like they’re coming from a Hollywood script in some cases. And a few things will become blatantly obvious in the process.

As this recurring series progresses, it will be clear that the county had designs on our property since at least 1992, even though the first lawsuit wasn’t filed until 2010. The timing of that lawsuit will become seen for what it is—a tactic to start the shut-down process just over one year after the same county commissioners had proclaimed what a vital public service the club provides. Claims of safety, noise pollution, and environmental damage will be shown to have been disproven in court, with the county spending large sums of tax-payer money trying to prove otherwise—and then trying to suppress their own results when the claims didn’t unfold the way they wanted. We’ll show you a coordinated effort by the local newspaper to paint the club as a bunch of dangerous whack-jobs with political cartoons and one-sided hit pieces. And so much more.

And in addition to the factual connection between at least one of our former commissioners and the county’s largest property developer, it will soon become clear that the abuse of process by the Department of Community Development was not just about collecting tax revenue on new homes—it was also about “sending a message” to the community that they’ll quash anyone bold enough to fight them when they've declared something. We’ll also see judges and prosecutors with personal connections, and we’ll see an arbitrator (hired by the county) who proclaimed the club was not at fault on a supposed permit-issue but still needed to pay for a permit on work performed.

This series has stalled simply because there are so few of us. The remaining members of the club are all volunteers; people still working and living their lives, too, trying to stay afloat in these uncertain times. The story is complex, and there are but a small number of individuals remaining who can piece together the facts in an orderly fashion. Please forgive the time this has taken. This story belongs to the past and current members, and it needs to be told.

Thank you for taking this slow journey. Now is the time to get involved with whatever skills and talents God gave you.

Interested in helping in this fight? Please email the Executive Committee at info@gunsafety.org