The sixth-century monastic complex of David Gareja was sacked by the Mongols in 1265, the Persians in 1615, and then turned into a firing range by the Soviet army; when modern monks reoccupied the place, they found little but damp, pockmarked caves.
CROSSING the road in a Chinese city sometimes feels a bit like stepping out in front of a firing range.
The cause of the explosion was uncertain, but it may have been the result of residue from spent ammunition in the area, a firing range, said Tracy Mansfield of the Smyrna Fire Department.
Unless one regularly puts in practice time at a firing range and engages in emergency drills, the risk of being ineffective with one's firearm and causing injury to innocents is significant.
The events in the competition tested teams' endurance, skill, and training in events that included a firing range estimation, an obstacle course, a rucksack march, stalk and shoot scenarios, and aquatics.
This summer, there are three photographs I cannot delete from the album in my head: a nine-year-old girl in pink shorts, holding an Uzi at a firing range in Arizona; a police sniper perched on top of an armored tank in Ferguson, Missouri; and a black-masked terrorist in a desert, about to behead an American journalist.
The pair are alleged to have spent months preparing for the attack on the 117th Boston Marathon, taking part in target practice at a firing range and purchasing 48 mortars containing 8lb of low-grade explosive powder from a fireworks store in New Hampshire.
After taking the oldest playtext in the western canon, Aeschylus's The Persians, up to a firing range in the Brecons (2010) and offering a rewired Coriolanus inside an aircraft hanger (2012), for their latest journey theatremakers Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes begin where so much of it began, with Homer's epic.
Women's shooting clubs have also proliferated — not just in small towns like Painesville, but also in Atlanta, Houston, even Manhattan, where a women's gun club meets regularly at a firing range in Chelsea, a neighborhood better known for art galleries.
