Special Rules for LEO on the range?

[ChuckDizzle]

At one of the indoor ranges here you can't buy targets like the below if you're not a LEO. Dumb rule, I don't know if they'll let you shoot your own. Figures the place is called "Tacticool Guns and Gear". I don't patronize them anymore.

I ran into a similar practice at a local outdoor range. They don't allow any human shaped targets. I guess this is an old school thing because some old timers said there used to be quite the stigma attached to target shooting at human shapes if you weren't military or law enforcement.

[WyattandDoc]

My Dad is a Docent at the Reagan library. He get's in free. I think this is total crap. I'm going the the Reagan Library Blog and am gonna cry, whine and stomp my feet at this rediculous, unbearable unfairness!!!

[barrage]

^ guess that answers my question.

[WyattandDoc]

I also found out he's allowed to go into certain parts of the Library that I can't. I could just scream!!!!!

[WyattandDoc]

This thread hasn't even come close to being anti-police (like I thought it eventually would... color me surprised actually). Are you going to try and inspire it into becoming one?

HMMMM

[barrage]

HMMMM

Indeed. Why instigate it if you claim to hate it so much?

[Maddog5150]

Someones range, someones rules and since it's their property, it's up to them whom they want to make exceptions for.

If you open up your own range, you can tell LEO to kick rocks. I wouldn't but that would just be me playing politics with the local LEO.

[AceGirlsHusband]

I have a membership at Sacramento Valley Shooting Center. And I follow the same rules as anyone else.

[Mac009]

I like having plain clothes leo's next to me at the range. 1, you know that guy isn't going to show his girlfriend how safe guns are when he thinks they are not loaded. 2, you can shoot like them and not get yelled at for it. Just don't do it all the time

[chris1911]

I ran into a similar practice at a local outdoor range. They don't allow any human shaped targets. I guess this is an old school thing because some old timers said there used to be quite the stigma attached to target shooting at human shapes if you weren't military or law enforcement.

They do the same with most silhouettes which I thought was strange. I don't know about bringing your own though.

[omgwtfbbq]

Maybe I'm naive but I have never heard of a public range doing something like this... Maybe it's a regional thing?

[ChuckDizzle]

My Dad is a Docent at the Reagan library. He get's in free. I think this is total crap. I'm going the the Reagan Library Blog and am gonna cry, whine and stomp my feet at this rediculous, unbearable unfairness!!!

And who is whining and crying?

[1911su16b870]

At a public, indoor range, when the officer is off duty, should he or she be exempt from some of the common rules against rapid fire, holster work etc.?

... All decision making and liability are with the owner of said range...

I did report him to the staff, saw him drawing and firing when I was heading out to buy a new target.

That's when I was told "Ohh he's a LEO, so its ok."

"so its ok" was the range staff answer to you, but you still had to start this snarky thread

Because everyone on the range is a safety officer. I've already made my decision if I will continue to patronize the range or not, I'm just curious if anyone else had similar experiences, or if someone has ran a range how they felt about such practices.

But hey, I guess I should have rehashed the same post mass shooting rhetoric since that seems more relevant this week.

So which one of Cooper's laws were broken by the off-duty LE? In what way was he being un-safe? Did you tell the range staff how he was being unsafe?

Are you upset that the range doesn't allow you to do the same rapid fire, holster work?

I am sure if you have trained/gotten to know/demonstrated your proficiency with your holster/rapid fire work to the range staff you would be allowed to do the same thing...unless you answer them in the same manner to which you've answered folks in your thread.

[ChuckDizzle]

In what way was my thread snarky? My response to you was snarky because you obviously failed to read the thread and thought you had a "gotcha" forum moment where you got to be right for once.

No, I'm not mad I don't get to rapid fire or draw on the range. It is a range open to anyone willing to pay $15, sign a waiver and shoot. In those cases it makes sense that everyone has to follow safety to the lowest common denominator, that way people who aren't proficient don't get crazy ideas, get in over their head, and end up hurting themselves or others. If I want to rapid fire or draw from a holster I simply go shoot at one of the half dozen private places I can shoot at.

[1911su16b870]

In what way was my thread snarky? My response to you was snarky...

Snarky thread is snarky