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• Rick Gallia, one of the owners of Riverman Gun Works in Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho, said the shop sells about $100 a month worth of exploding targets at about $4 a target. "This is Idaho, everybody goes out on the forest and shoots," he said.
• But he also said it wasn't a big part of his business.
• "I'm not a big advocate of the stuff," he said. "I'm amazed it's legal anywhere. You can put a pound of that together and blow up a refrigerator. It's powerful."
• Brandon Charvat, owner of Mandan Sporting Goods in Mandan, North Dakota, said it's mostly used on private land in that state. He said for many it's a novelty, but care needs to be taken.
• "I've had customers of mine -- they were blowing up washing machines and stuff like that," he said. "There was a kid who got hit with flying debris, but they weren't using it safely either."
• Brandon Westland of Bozeman Tactical in Bozeman, Montana, said his shop wouldn't lose money because he doesn't sell exploding targets.
• "Ammo is expensive enough," he said. "I don't think I'd be purchasing any exploding targets."
• Exploding targets are already banned on the remaining Forest Service land in South Dakota from an order last year.
• The southern half of Idaho is in the Forest Service's Intermountain Region, where managers this week are considering a ban on exploding targets, spokeswoman Charity Parks said. The region also includes Utah, Nevada and portions of western Wyoming.

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A federal judge has dismissed a portion of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a South Dakota State Penitentiary guard slain by inmates three years ago.
• News outlets report that U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol dismissed a claim in the lawsuit filed against the South Dakota Department of Corrections but remanded other claims to a state court.
• Lynette Johnson alleges that lackadaisical behavior by state prison officials enabled Rodney Berget and Eric Robert to kill her husband during a failed escape attempt in 2011.
• The Department of Corrections has argued that the suit fails to show that Ronald

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