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If by odd, you mean seriously unsafe, I see the same thing on my visits to McKellars. I hate to say it, but that range needs a safety walking the line full-time, coaching, and sending people home.
Both of the past two times I have been out there, I have been not just swept but had the muzzles of loaded weapons pointed at me and held there by new shooters.
When I protested while moving to cover, I was told by one (using the pistol as a pointer), "Don't worry so much, the safety is on".
Since both times, they were young ladies, I did not offer them the same corrective action I might have if they had been men. I did explain that was a violation of basic gun safety and courtesy.
You do have to wonder if these people were also given the keys to a car with a full tank of gas and told to get out on the street and learn how to drive.
IIRC, that range was temporarily closed down a few years ago after a Major's wife shot herself in the foot on the line. Almost every day it is open, with the range officer sitting in the office, it is a tick away from the same thing happening again.
TR
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De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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