Or “witnesses report hearing him shout ‘Hey, watch this!’ just before it happened.”
I’ve been a range safety officer and I would have kicked him off the range as soon as it became obvious that he was unable or unwilling to follow the range rules. There is no excuse for that sort of behavior. If someone was uncooperative, my standing instructions were to close the range and call the police to have the individual removed from the range.
I’ll buy the first one, but that second one seems unlikely, given the description.
I used to spend all my time at Scout Camp firing .22s at the rifle range. The range was the safest place to be in the entire camp (and they had a sign that said so). It was true because if you even THOUGHT about breaking a rule, they kicked you out instantly, for the entire day. That’s what should have happened with Fatty McTriggerhappy…but it sounds like he was someone’s buddy. Sounds like it was almost a lawsuit in the making to me.
–FCOD
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Excellent name!
Yes, Boy Scout ranges are quite safe. I’ve worked at a BSA summer camp for the last 10 years. About 4 years back, when we were having our accredidation inspection by the National BSA people, the inspectors walked right onto the range (within the fence surrounding the whole building, not out in front of the rifles) during the Rifle merit badge class without asking for clearance form the rangemaster. This was not smart.
The rangemaster chewed them a number of new assholes, and kicked them out. They later admitted they fucked up and were impressed that the RSO didn’t let them get away with it.
Shut the fuck up, asshole. You enjoy the idea of gun owners dying through accidental shootings, do ya? Offensive fucking prick.
No offense, but this is a stupid rule. The rate at which one fires has absolutely nothing to do with safety. I often shoot at a rate faster than 1 round/second. And I have no problem putting all of them on the paper. Hell, my gun club has a regularly scheduled speed-shooting events. Rapid fire is an element of the vastly popular Cowboy Shoots, too.
This, too, is kinda silly. There are far better ways to correct a person’s gun-handling than booting them off the range for a single infraction. I’ve been a range safety officer, too. And I find that the guys who’re gently corrected early on, eventually become the most safety-conscious guys around. People who get booted for a single simple infraction are just going to get obstinate about the issue and then they may never learn safe gun-handling.
I will agree with the other folks here, though, that the guy described in Gabe’s OP was deserving of being booted from the range. I can tolerate one minor infraction, but having to issue multiple warnings just isn’t accpetable.
But that’s exactly the reason to worry. This guy’s more likely to harm someone else through his uncorrected stupidity than hurt himself. And stupid gun handling reflects poorly on the rest of us responsible gun owners.
There’s always a first.
Bingo. The other infractions are’t all that uncommon at some of the ranges I’ve shot at, but they’re accidents, not continual behaviors. The last straw should have been firing outside the range. More ranges have been forever shut down due to some yo-yo decided to shoot bottles off the top of the backstop or some other off range firing, causing a rain of lead into the surrounding community at large. Any shooting that’s purposely aimed at anything other than the backstop should be a life time banning from that range.
You guys should sign up on frappr:
Looks like the only Monterey doper on there so far is CynicalGabe.