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Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0<\/strong>The following is a syndicated article by author Ed Combs that first appeared in USCCA\u2019s Concealed Carry Magazine Volume 12, Issue 7, October 2015 under the title, \u201cCompany Policy: Can’t You Read the Sign.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat do you mean I can\u2019t draw from a holster? Why do you think I\u2019m here in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have heard\nthat or something like it at almost every range I\u2019ve visited over the last 20\nyears. Public or private, indoor or out, there always seems to be one\nindividual who\u2019s just discovered that, to his dismay, the founders of the feast\nbelieve the handling of sporting pieces is a gentleman\u2019s endeavor and, as such,\nhe is to revel in his \u201cpractical shooting\u201d nonsense elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As responsibly\narmed Americans, we understand that basic safety rules are important and need\nto be followed, but the words on the \u201cRange Rules\u201d sign sometimes progress from\nreasonable to borderline laughable. \u201cNo alcohol or drugs\u201d is followed by \u201cNo\nhuman silhouette targets.\u201d \u201cNo horseplay\u201d is followed by \u201cNo holsters allowed\non the firing line.\u201d \u201cMust wear eye and ear protection\u201d is followed by \u201cMust\nshoot no more than one round per second.\u201d \u201cNo food or drink on the firing line\u201d\nis followed by \u201cShooters must remain stationary while shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can make\nit difficult to practice drawing from an IWB holster while getting off of the X\nand putting three rounds into the upper torso and head of a target in less than\nthree seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GROUND RULES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay with me\nhere; I\u2019m not talking about the basic rules of firearms safety or standard\nrange protocol. I\u2019m talking about the last few rules that sometimes creep into\nan otherwise reasonable set of policies, and I understand that almost every\nrange rule exists for a reason. A \u201cPaper Targets Only\u201d policy comes from range\nvolunteers tiring of paying to dispose of televisions and computers that\ninconsiderate louts have neglected to take back home with them (after\ndepositing several pounds of broken glass over a 10-yard radius). \u201cNo Smoking\non the Firing Line\u201d signs pop up pretty quickly after the first time a shooter\nallows a cigarette, cigar or pipe ash to drop down into their shirt, causing\nthem to sweep the entire room or, equally unacceptably, negligently discharge\ntheir firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those rules\naside, I would submit to the governing members of shooting clubs across this\ncountry that it is time to re-assess a few of the policies governing our\nfacilities. I understand that some safety rules are non-negotiable, but I\u2019m\nwilling to bet a milkshake that at least one of your current rules can be\nimproved in order to increase your membership. In doing so, you will also\nincrease the number of responsibly armed Americans and, in turn, Second\nAmendment advocates in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOME, HEARTH\nAND HERITAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of\nshooting clubs and ranges in this country are \u201csportsman\u2019s\u201d or \u201cconservation\u201d\nclubs, and I love them for what they do and what they represent. I am a member\nof several (though maybe not after the publication of this column), and I will\nalways be good for a raffle ticket, T-shirt or a few bratwursts whenever I see\nsignage for a sportsman\u2019s or conservation club\u2019s fundraiser. Most of these\norganizations were founded anywhere from 40 to 130 years ago and are a\nwonderful combination of social organization and training facility. For the\nmajority of their existence, they\u2019ve been dedicated to trap and skeet shooting,\nteaching state-level hunter\u2019s education and the Boy Scouts of America Rifle\nShooting Merit Badge, the occasional pistol league and maybe even sighting in\nrifles and slug guns as a fundraiser the few weekends before opening day of gun\ndeer season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love target\nshooting and heritage and hunting and game feeds more than most. I don\u2019t say\nthe following to condemn my sporting brethren or to belittle their\ncontributions to Second Amendment preservation. They have fought for us in the\nsense that they toil to keep ranges open, yes, but there are a few topics upon\nwhich we\u2019re passing each other in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these\norganizations have policies on their ranges that make it basically impossible\nto train for concealed carry and armed self-defense in a realistic fashion. As\nmentioned earlier, no silhouette targets. No holsters. No more than one shot\nper second. Sometimes these rules come directly from the company that insures\nthe range, and there isn\u2019t a whole lot that can be done about them. However,\nit\u2019s been more than once that I\u2019ve poked around only to find that the reason I\nam not allowed to engage a man-sized photo target at 6 yards is due to a social\ndecision rather than a fiscal or legal one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE DEVIL\u2019S\nBARGAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like any other,\nGun Culture is not monolithic. There are gun owners who are hunters,\nclay-shooters and nothing else. There are self-defense-oriented sidearm owners\nwho have exactly zero interest in ever hunting animals or shooting clays, and\nthen there are those like me who love both disciplines \u2014 recreational and\ndefensive shooting. There exist purists on these two ends of the spectrum. Both\nends can sometimes be a bit of a hassle to others, but at least right now,\nthere is a cultural rift between those who wish to use the range and those who\ncontrol access to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though millions of Americans understand that defensive use of arms is as important now as it\u2019s ever been, certain individuals who are heavily involved with conservation and sportsman\u2019s clubs are interested in the sporting use of arms to the exclusion of other disciplines\u2026 especially defensive handgunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is usually\nout of instinctive self-preservation. These individuals understand that there\nare politicians who want to take their guns away, which is true. They also\nunderstand that there are other gun owners who do not share their interest in\nhunting and turkey shoots. Even worse, these other gun owners are interested in\nAR-15s and other modern semi-automatic firearms, firearms that accept what\nthey\u2019ve heard called \u201chigh-capacity magazines straight from the battlefield\u201d\nand other such \u201cunsavory\u201d materiel in which they\u2019ve never really been\ninterested since their honorable discharge from the Army in 1965. Since they\naren\u2019t all that fond of such types anyway, these users and enjoyers of Modern\nSporting Arms and defensive tools can be served up as sacrificial offerings in\nthe name of \u201ccompromise,\u201d thus giving the anti-gun politicians someone else to\nhassle. As long as the anti-gun politicians have someone else to go after,\nHillary Clinton and her ilk will leave them, the self-declared \u201cHonest Gun\nOwners,\u201d alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least that\u2019s\nthe theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HONEST\nINDEED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it is in\npractice is a willful and intentional selling-out of their fellow gun owners.\nThese individuals have either fallen for the biggest lie ever told about the\nSecond Amendment and really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing or they\u2019re in on the\nlie and know exactly what they\u2019re doing. Myself, I don\u2019t know which is worse.\nIf they\u2019ve simply been lied to, they\u2019re the individuals who refuse to call a\ndefensive pistol a \u201cweapon\u201d and honestly believe that firearm ownership is all\nabout heritage and sport and target shooting and quail over rice. These are the\nindividuals who do not feel that an \u201chonest man\u201d has any business with a rifle\nmagazine that holds more than five rounds and that if anyone\u2019s after a pistol\nmagazine that holds more than eight, he\u2019s up to no good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this person\nhasn\u2019t fallen for the ol\u2019 sporting amendment lie \u2014 if they intentionally dangle\ntheir AR-pattern-shooting, sidearm-wearing compatriots out in front of anti-gun\nzealots to protect their own narrow reading of the Second Amendment \u2014 then I\ndon\u2019t know what else I could call them but anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense\ngun owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That last\npassage was rough, but I promise I am here to neither insult anyone\u2019s\nintentions nor sound any more like Mark Walters than absolutely necessary. I\u2019m\nwriting this because I want those who support restrictive range policies to\nknow that as I type, there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who would be\nthrilled to join their organizations were it not for the policies I listed\nabove. No holsters, no silhouette targets, no more than one shot per second and\nsometimes even no AR-pattern rifle policies are keeping legions of potential\nmembers away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWHY DO YOU\nNOT WANT MY MONEY?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first\nshooting club I ever joined \u2014 the Middleton Sportsman\u2019s Club in Middleton,\nWisconsin \u2014 was founded by my grandfather and some of his friends back in the\ndays when they shot grouse where the University Hospital now stands. It was\nwhere my father learned to shoot and where I shot my qualification for hunter\u2019s\nsafety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is now a\nLexus dealership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That range is\ngone for lots of reasons \u2014 urban sprawl among them \u2014 but far too many ranges\nsimilar to it go under every year for another reason that dogged the MSC: There\njust weren\u2019t enough members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the\nAmerican Legion and the VFW, the average age of an MSC member was over 65, and\nevery time I attended a general member meeting, my brother and I would be the\nyoungest individuals present by 30 years. Not only were there fewer and fewer\nmembers every year, there seemed no sense of urgency among existing members to\nexpand membership. After all, the last thing they needed was a bunch of young\nweirdos lousing the place up \u2026 right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truly unsavory\nelements should, of course, be excluded from your private club. Be it the man\nwho shows up intoxicated for pistol league or the man who wants to shoot at\nnothing but picture targets depicting World War II era caricatures of Jews, we\nas a shooting community simply cannot associate ourselves with those kinds of\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who would lump individuals who wish to draw from a holster or train with their modern sporting rifle in with the riffraff I listed above, I would ask that they re-assess their take on the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover how you can join nearly 300,000 responsibly armed Americans who already rely on the USCCA to protect their families, futures and freedoms: USCCA.com\/gunsamerica<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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