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So I just came back from the shooting range, I was there with my friend and his younger brother for his brothers birthday. While I was at the range I ran into a couple of guys from my old high school who were there renting guns and shooting.
I made sure to stress safety with my friends little brother when telling him how to handle the gun, especially watching his finger being on the trigger and so on and so forth.
while my friend was loading his magazines I went over to where the guys I knew from school were, they were renting out a shotgun and offered to let me shoot it, so while I was waiting for my turn, there were some young asian men (and i only mention they are asian because english was obviously not their first language) i dont know how old but they were there with their mother also renting firearms in the lane next to the guys I knew.
Im going to assume it was their first time shooting because they thought it was funny or crazy or whatever it was at how loud and powerful the .45 they were shooting was. so while im standing a safe distance behind the guy from school i always kind of pay attention to the number of shots going on from people around me just because i count everything. but im standing there and one of these asian guys backs out of the booth turns around laughing after shooting 2 shots while the gun is pointed right at me with his finger ON THE TRIGGER. I instantly yelled at him to point the gun away from me, "WOAH WOAH POINT IT THAT WAY" pointing my arm down range. straight up scared the crap out of me. the guy quickly turned back facing the range and set the gun down and started apologizing. i just stared at him and walked away. my heart was pounding like crazy. thankfully i was on the furthest lane away from him but kind of kept my eye out for any more irresponsible behavior, which i did not see because im pretty sure i freaked them out, his mother and friend or whoever were with him just kinda got quiet and tensed up. I know I probably should have told the people that ran the range what happened and to keep an eye out. but was unfortunately distracted with the news that my friends uncle had just died right as we were leaving the range.
I understand people want to have fun and shoot, but I feel like for places renting guns out to people should keep a close eye on those people, or at least go over safety measures of some sort, because that was not cool, i almost pooped myself.
I made sure to stress safety with my friends little brother when telling him how to handle the gun, especially watching his finger being on the trigger and so on and so forth.
while my friend was loading his magazines I went over to where the guys I knew from school were, they were renting out a shotgun and offered to let me shoot it, so while I was waiting for my turn, there were some young asian men (and i only mention they are asian because english was obviously not their first language) i dont know how old but they were there with their mother also renting firearms in the lane next to the guys I knew.
Im going to assume it was their first time shooting because they thought it was funny or crazy or whatever it was at how loud and powerful the .45 they were shooting was. so while im standing a safe distance behind the guy from school i always kind of pay attention to the number of shots going on from people around me just because i count everything. but im standing there and one of these asian guys backs out of the booth turns around laughing after shooting 2 shots while the gun is pointed right at me with his finger ON THE TRIGGER. I instantly yelled at him to point the gun away from me, "WOAH WOAH POINT IT THAT WAY" pointing my arm down range. straight up scared the crap out of me. the guy quickly turned back facing the range and set the gun down and started apologizing. i just stared at him and walked away. my heart was pounding like crazy. thankfully i was on the furthest lane away from him but kind of kept my eye out for any more irresponsible behavior, which i did not see because im pretty sure i freaked them out, his mother and friend or whoever were with him just kinda got quiet and tensed up. I know I probably should have told the people that ran the range what happened and to keep an eye out. but was unfortunately distracted with the news that my friends uncle had just died right as we were leaving the range.
I understand people want to have fun and shoot, but I feel like for places renting guns out to people should keep a close eye on those people, or at least go over safety measures of some sort, because that was not cool, i almost pooped myself.
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