Nevada is made up of all kinds of towns: casino towns, border towns, farming towns, ranching towns, mining towns, fishing towns, railroad towns, company towns, boomtowns, even a Sam's Town and a Terrible's Town. But for the past 10 years, there’s also been a new type of "town" that's unique not only to the state, but also to the country.
A gun town.
When it's completely built out sometime in the distant future, Nevada's newest settlement, Front Sight, will occupy 550 acres of desert roughly 45 miles west of Las Vegas, a few miles off the road to Pahrump. It'll consist of 171 homes on one-acre lots, several hundred townhouses, a community center and pool, a school, and an airstrip, along with retail, meeting, and administrative areas. Impressive, but secondary to the extensive firearms facilities: 12 shooting ranges from 25 to 150 meters, a 400-meter rifle range, video and live-fire training simulators, a defensive driving track, classrooms, gunsmith and armory, and pro shop-think of it as a world-class golf community, except that the focus is firearms.
That's the vision, anyway. For now, Front Sight is noteworthy for its extensive firearms-training curriculum and ongoing infrastructure improvements. It’s not a "housing addition" (as of last New Year's, no houses had been built), nor is it "required" that all attendees be armed (i.e., carry concealed weapons on their persons), though everyone at Front Sight walks to and from the ranges and buildings and vehicles with their handguns, shotguns, and rifles.
Has anyone been hurt from a gun? Not to our knowledge, and we pay very close attention to this matter. Accidents do happen, of course -- mostly self-inflicted at firearms training facilities, though considering the millions of rounds fired every year, an accident or two would be statistically insignificant. But gun safety is of utmost importance at these schools and it would take an extremely rare and flukey incident for anyone to get injured there by a stray round.
As for crime, we assume you're referring to the violent sort. Well, it’s hard to imagine any violent criminal showing up at Front Sight with an intent to commit mayhem, or any crime at all, for that matter. Entrance security is tight, and let’s just say it would come pretty close to suicide to point any muzzle anywhere but down range at a target.
