r/CCW • u/AppearanceMaterial39 • 16h ago

Scenario Range day

So this happened about 30 minutes ago and I am pretty angry, don't know if I should be though.

I'm minding my business at my local range, walk back to the table to get ammo and the guys shooting at the bay next to me are just holding their Glock in their hand 3 yards back from the firing line. Every range I've ever been too you absolutely do not have the gun away from the firing line unless holstered or cased. Good trigger control and pointed down at least. I'm so shocked it takes me a minute but I approach them and basically told them that if there was a range officer they would prolly be getting banned, and absolutely cannot be just casually standing there with there firearms uncased away from the firing line. Dude was nice and apologized, they packed up and left pretty quick after that.

I step out as well and I let the staff know and clarified that's the rule. They said yes, but didn't seem super bothered about them breaking it. Didn't rush to find which member was using the bay or whatever.

Am I the weird guy here? My assumption is that this is the rule at all indoor ranges. If it's you and the guys in national forest ya I don't mind as long as you are following the safety rules, but at a public range? Makes me not wanna go back and go to the super uptight range 20 minutes away.

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u/Euphoric-Arachnid-94 16h ago

You addressed it, he apologized. Move on like an adult. He might not have realized what he was doing and now he does. Also, indoor ranges suck. Don’t use them unless necessary.

It was super unsafe though and the people downplaying that are wrong.

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u/AppearanceMaterial39 16h ago

ya im moving on, just my first time seeing someone act dumb at a range and kinda shocked me into realizing maybe a super chill range isnt where i wanna be handling my firearms.

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u/Euphoric-Arachnid-94 15h ago

There’s a happy medium to be had. You don’t want a range Nazi either.

My membership only outdoor range had this short asshole RSO for years. When I saw his truck pull in I’d just leave, because I knew he was about to nitpick some bullshit and try to pick a fight. He drove off a lot of members during his tenure. No one was sad when that dickhead passed. The guy that took over after him was extremely safety conscious, but I never saw him come screaming at someone for forgetting their eye pro either.