Why do people keep killing themselves at my local range?

[zachomega]

I can't find the article yet, but another suicide at ready aim fire in Bristol.

Is this a thing?

-Zach

[Hodgie]

I can't find the article yet, but another suicide at ready aim fire in Bristol.

Is this a thing?

-Zach

It's happened a couple NJ ranges I frequented a time or two when I lived there.

[abner13]

They've had 1 or 2 at Target World.

[Knightshift]

Just do it in your back yard for crying out loud. Save someone the clean up.

[Boris Badinov]

Gun rental doesn't involve a backround check. And it's a whole lot cheaper than buying a new or used gun.

Many ranges won't rent to you if you come alone, so...it'll sometimes in a murder and a suicide.

[Boris Badinov]

Just do it in your back yard for crying out loud. Save someone the clean up.

Someone always has to clean it up.

[sota]

Someone always has to clean it up.

eh... just wait for the vultures and wild animals to do the job.


RTSP in NJ had their first not too long ago. Even their insurance agent said they were well overdue statistically.

[zachomega]

Gun rental doesn't involve a backround check. And it's a whole lot cheaper than buying a new or used gun.

Many ranges won't rent to you if you come alone, so...it'll sometimes in a murder and a suicide.

I've never seen or heard this rule in effect. Seems like a poor business model.

-Zach

[Boris Badinov]

I've never seen or heard this rule in effect. Seems like a poor business model.

-Zach

I guess they figure if you come with someone else you aren't planning to die today.

Most of the time ranges will rent to a solo customer IF that customer also has brought their own firearm-- the logic, I guess, that if you were gonna kill yourself you'd just do it at home with your own gun. But, what if you had a non-fucntioning gun, or an authentic looking plastic copy? Or just an empty pistol case?

Nearly all of the ranges I've been to don't even check to see if you actually have a firearm in the pistol case you bring to their range.

[streaker69]

Coming with someone doesn't mean you aren't going to kill yourself: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...gun-range.html