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In-home guns sales become target of one city’s homeowners, officials
Jason Pratt, a military veteran, demonstrates a CZ Scorpion in his home on July 12, 2022, in Greenwood Village, where he has operated Tomcat Tactical since 2017. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America) GREENWOOD VILLAGE — Residents of tony Greenwood Village first learned about Tomcat Tactical by accident: A Google Maps search showed the company was based out of a house a mile from an elementary school. But the home business wasn’t offering software support or financial planning, like other home businesses in the neighborhood. This one advertised semi-automatic weapon kits and ammunition. “Everyone who I’ve spoken to about this has been flabbergasted,” Greenwood Village resident Gary…
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Trash, scrap metal seized from home recycling business by Grand Rapids officials
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Grand Rapids police and town personnel seized many hundreds of trash and scrap metallic Tuesday morning from a resident who operates a recycling enterprise out of his yard in violation of metropolis guidelines. Invoice Peterson, who lives at 639 Cherry St. SE, reported city officers arrived at his home and loaded a variety of merchandise — aluminum radiators, buckets of brass and zinc objects, copper wire, stainless metal sinks — into a dump truck and two box vans. He explained Tuesday’s seizure, the most current in a string of enforcement actions by the city, upsets him because it disrupts his mission of decreasing the amount of…
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Pandemic Prompts Officials to Relax Rules on Home Businesses
It took 16 years, a local election and a global pandemic for Jonathan Holtfreter to secure his right to teach tuba in peace. The retired music teacher, a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, had for decades supplemented his public school salary by teaching private lessons at a nearby music store or in his home’s soundproofed basement. But since 2005—when a neighbor complained that the home lessons and the parked cars they invited violated Ann Arbor’s city code—Holtfreter has tiptoed around his business, booking fewer lessons than he otherwise could and exhorting students not to park where the neighbors might see them. He had little hope of changing the rules: The…
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