
UPDATE: ICE confirms use of Owings Mills gun range for training
Contracts show the Department of Homeland Security plans to send agents to GUNTRY for years to come, as U.S. immigration arrests reach record-setting high
Above: Masked federal agents conduct an immigration raid in California last year. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Earlier this week The Brew reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been using the GUNTRY gun range in Owings Mills since 2020 to train agents, leading some people to cancel their membership.
Responding days after publication, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson finally confirmed our reporting about this club in the suburbs north of Baltimore with a one-sentence statement:
“ICE uses this facility to provide required annual firearms and tactical training for its law enforcement personnel.”
• Some members leave high-end Owings Mills gun range after learning it’s being used by ICE (9/1/26)
Here is some ICE coverage from other outlets around the country that has appeared since our story:
• ICE announced that its August arrests (50,925 people) set a record for the highest number arrested in a single month. (NBC News)
• An ICE whistleblower warned of “unprecedented lowering of standards” during the agency’s hiring spree. (Associated Press)
• An ICE officer is charged with lying about events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis. (Associated Press)
• Trump’s DOJ blocked serious charges against that officer, over the federal prosecutor’s “strongest possible” objections. (ProPublica)
• More than 1,000 people held a mass demonstration in Danbury, CT., to protest recent immigration arrests. (Connecticut Mirror and below Democracy Now!):