---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7914"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7914"
heading: "Shooting ranges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7914"
units:
  - "Chapter 98 — Sportsmen’s Access to Federal Land"
  - "Subchapter II — Sportsmen’s Access to Federal Land"
---

# §7914. Shooting ranges

- (a) **In general—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary concerned](/usc/16/7911.md?p=2) may, in accordance with this section and other applicable law, lease or permit the use of [Federal land](/usc/16/7911.md?p=1) for a shooting range.
- (b) **Exception—** The [Secretary concerned](/usc/16/7911.md?p=2) shall not lease or permit the use of [Federal land](/usc/16/7911.md?p=1) for a shooting range within—
  - (1) a component of the National Landscape Conservation System;
  - (2) a component of the [National Wilderness Preservation System](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13);
  - (3) any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) that is—
    - (A) designated as a [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) study [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A);
    - (B) administratively classified as—
      - (i) [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13)-eligible; or
      - (ii) [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13)-suitable; or
    - (C) a primitive or semiprimitive [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A);
  - (4) a national monument, national volcanic monument, or national [scenic area](/usc/16/544.md?p=o); or
  - (5) a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System (including [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated for study for potential [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–9, title IV, § 4104, Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat. 759.)