"It’s not the fact of the shooting. It’s the duration."

The blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun on a farm in the sprawling rural enclave of Darby shouldn’t be unusual. Lots of people discharge firearms on agricultural property.

But the shooting west of Bellamy Brothers Boulevard comes in two-shot increments from 25 locations for hours at a time, six days a week. The targets are clay pigeons.

It is the practice range of Dania Vizzi, a member of the U.S. National Shotgun Team, a two-time national champion, world champion, Olympic hopeful and recent bronze medalist at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.

It also is illegal, according to Pasco County ordinances. Under state law, the county can not control firearm use on agricultural land, but it can regulate gun ranges. And the Vizzi family turned the farm into a private skeet shooting range last year without county permission.

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