In the last ten years before I retired a large part of my work was as an expert witness investigating and testifying as to the causes of transportation related accidents. Yes, there were a fair number of blockheads who were accidents waiting to happen. But the majority were people who were well trained, knew the safety rules and yet one time cut a corner, or forgot to look first, or was too busy thinking about something and forgot to set a parking brake and they, or somebody near them got injured or killed. The take away is that far too many times people are injured or killed in the workplace because they didn’t do something by the book.
The reason for strictly enforcing safety rules is that when people make exceptions, someone invariably gets injured.
Now to the issue at hand. When you take the NRA RSO class they teach fundamentals like muzzle and trigger discipline and explain what constitutes good practice. After that they teach one rule; the job of the RSO is to ensure all of the people on the range adhere to the rules established by the range. They also teach that the RSO can not change the rules on an ad hoc basis. The rule is the rule, and if someone is not observing the rules, explain it and suggest the shooter change. If there is no change forthcoming, then follow the established procedure for rule breakers.
The OP broke the established rules. There’s no discussion, there’s no dispensation because it’s the wrong time and place. As others have said, if you don’t like a specific rule, open a discussion with the powers that be at an appropriate time when rule changes are being discussed. Or the alternative, find someplace else to shoot their revolver.
Here’s something to consider, why would a range have such a rule? How about the possibility that prior to the rule a round got off the property and put a hole in a neighbor’s window? Interestingly enough I spent the early part of this evening at my club helping to present to the membership the plans our architect has come up with to implement no blue sky features on our rifle range. Guess what? we are going to have no muzzle up rules as well. Our black powder shooters will have their own stations where the ceiling above their stations will have steel plating.
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