- June 25, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
WALKER — A local business that caters to people willing to drive miles to shoot each other with balls of hardened paint has sparked ire from neighbors and local officials who say the place has become a nuisance and violates parish regulations.
Sandwiched between homes on Arnold Road midway between Satsuma and Denham Springs, Guerilla Warfare Paintball boasts on its website of “the finest paintball in Baton Rouge.” The shooting range houses inflatable obstacles and several acres of woods where patrons can cosplay war games.
But the facility has been closed since May, when Livingston Parish President Layton Ricks fired off a cease-and-desist letter ordering the business to suspend operations. The order capped off months of complaints from neighbors about crammed driveways, the interminable pop-pop-pop of paintball rounds and development on the property that parish officials said violated permit requirements.
Guerilla…