LGS would not let me rent a M&P40c

flat_topp said:
1. Bring a second person with me to the range. OR ...
2. Bring one of my own firearms to the range with me.
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Several ranges in my area adhere to the same policy.

I am a little curious here, don't you normally bring another gun or 2 to shoot when you go? I would of at least had my range bag with glasses, ear protection, targets etc... not that would of did any good because of rule #2
 
CS45Fan said:
...don't you normally bring another gun or 2 to shoot when you go?
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I could but didn't since I went to compare an M&P9c to a Glock19. The gun shop/range is about an hour away from me so I got lucky that they did not have such a rule. But had I known I certainly could have and would have brought a revolver to sit.

The private rifle club I belong to is 5 minutes away from me but it does not include a gun store for sales or rentals. And on a week day during the Winter the indoor range is used but there is usually one or less other members present. Fortunately we do not have a buddy system rule so I can go as I like without someone else.

The rental range is always busy and on the weekend...scary busy. I stopped in on a Saturday and there was no way I wanted to shoot on that day. Came back during the week. As popular as that place seems to be they could probably double their space and still be busy. They do the membership thing too but it isn't practical for me and really I prefer my club since most of my more enjoyable shooting is outside ringing steel or benchrest shooting with a .22 rifle...in a little warmer weather that is.
 
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SURPRISED IT HASN'T HAPPENED HERE

Interesting that this subject came up. I've commented to several friends that I'm surprised in the 18 years I've been a member of a local outdoor shooting range that no one has taken their life. Besides my own recreational shooting, I've been active as a board member and RSO. We have 1,000 members, as well as open to the public one day a week.

We DID have a suicide in one of the local gun shops, similar to the lady described above. Someone with a .40 S&W cartridge went in, asked to see a pistol, & did himself in when the clerk turned his back.

We also have suicides annually in the forest, which surrounds our small town. Usually people who are critically ill & don't want to extend what's left with their life in misery.

Hank M.
 
I'm a member at one local range. Since I am, there's no requirement to bring a buddy or a handgun if I solely want to rent one.

For other ranges, I bring a "token" gun with me.
 
A 10 bay indoor shooting range here in Myrtle Beach had a man come in, rent a 45 auto, bought 2 boxes of ammo, and went in to shoot. Shot the first box, opened the second box, loaded the gun, and killed himself. They found a note at his home almost 50 miles away. The range had been open for 30 years. It is now closed.
 
CS45Fan said:
I am a little curious here, don't you normally bring another gun or 2 to shoot when you go? I would of at least had my range bag with glasses, ear protection, targets etc... not that would of did any good because of rule #2
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Not this time. I did grab my eyes and ears before leaving the house on Friday morning on my way to work. I had planned to stop by the range and try out the M&P40c after work. I wasn't planning to shoot anything else. It was my first time visiting this particular range, it is fairly new and has only been open since the middle of last year. The range's website doesn't say anything about these particular rules regarding rentals, so I showed up unprepared. Now I know.
 
qBan said:
I think I remember seeing this on the new, they even had video of it right?

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This incident happened several years ago and I don't know if there was a video or not. if so it was never shown on the local news.
 
The senior NRA instructor at our local range sent a video around that's interesting. Shows a woman with a handgun and a coach or instructor just off her left shoulder. She shoots one round down range, immediately turns the pistol around and shoots herself in the chest. Round passes through her and hits the coach, who immediately goes down writhing in pain. She doesn't even stagger, walks to the rear of the lane and sits down.

This is particularly disturbing as the instructor is in the same position we take when coaching shooters in the Basic Pistol Class. The instructor had no time to react.
 
flat_topp said:
Not this time. I did grab my eyes and ears before leaving the house on Friday morning on my way to work. I had planned to stop by the range and try out the M&P40c after work. I wasn't planning to shoot anything else. It was my first time visiting this particular range, it is fairly new and has only been open since the middle of last year. The range's website doesn't say anything about these particular rules regarding rentals, so I showed up unprepared. Now I know.
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Gotcha! Would of been nice if they posted the rules like you stated :D
 
i1afli said:
Really?! Someone's going to go to the trouble of visiting a gun range, and jump through the hoops that entails, just to commit suicide? There's an infinite number of easier and more convenient ways to do it. Sounds like an incredible what-if scenario contrived by an anti-gun insurance company to create a burden for the gun-business owner.

I agree with Muss Muggins...sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
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Well, I guess I stand corrected. Never would have thunk it.
 
These suicides happen a LOT more than some may think. Walk into a carpeted indoor range and look at the carpeting. That's called a clue. Unless it somehow leaks out most indoor ranges try to say nothing about these incidents for a whole host of reasons. I was quite surprised years ago when a few of my friends that worked at/for indoor ranges started telling me about the numbers of suicides they have encountered. Simply put, there isn't much you can do to stop a person bent on committing suicide. Families may try to sue an indoor range facility, but a decent lawyer will try to talk them out of doing something that dumb. The suit will open up all sorts of doors the family may not want to go through.

Rick
 
Really makes me appreciate my backyard boonies type range. Open 24/7, great ventilation but no rentals. Got to use my own guns. No buddies required. Just need to make sure the deer are not behind the targets. Thank God I'm a country boy.
Peace,
Gordon
 
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