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Do any of you carry a concealed weapon while at the shooting range?
If so, I assume you don't shoot your concealed weapon during that visit to the range?
Is there anything illegal about doing this? I know most ranges have a sign that says something to the effect of "no loaded weapons behind the firing line", but I assume that's a rule, not a law, and probably doesn't apply to a concealed weapon anyway.
On one hand, a firing range is probably the least likely place for a shooting to occur. On the other hand... why not?
I rarely use organized ranges. When I'm out in the desert shooting, one of my guns is always loaded in the holster, as is an M4 on the tailgate of the truck. Our open areas here are often highways for illegals, and they're more frequently carrying contraband with them.
I do often. No rule against it. I never used to worry about it, but a string of gunshop robberies has me making an effort to keep one of my 3 handguns loaded and holsters, even if I'm shooting them all that day.
Same pretty much goes here. I double checked w/range officers last monday about carrying while I practice my target shooting. They've got NP as long as the gun in holstered and NOT handled during cease fires on the line.
My range allows you to carry concealed as long as you can legally do so in the state of Oregon. The only place that you're allowed to open carry is on the action range.
I do even with the signs. There's no legal sign here in Florida. Concealed MEANS concealed! And no, I don't pull it out and fire at the range. They have cameras and I might get kicked out.
I'm with AZ on going to the desert. The only range I do go to is when I have to add a weapon to my permit and then I do CCW to the range but move it to my range bad when I arrive.
Our local range has an entry checkpoint - no loaded weapons allowed beyond that point. You can load them after being assigned a shooting position. It also applies to police officers who wish to use the range. Don't think you would have to worry about being unarmed for that short period - the owner and range officers are all armed - open carry.
The land is owned by the City, but the range is operated by the gun club.
The PD used it as a range before the gun club did.
I have a family membership in the gun club.
The gun club rules are "chamber empty, action open" when not in use.
PD SOP is hot range.
I CCW, and almost always fire my carry gun as well as the others I brought. I just keep a mag full of JHPs handy.
It's an outdoor range, and if the gate's open, any fool could just drive on down in there. Not legally, but when has that ever stopped anyone but the law-abiding?
I always carry either concealed or openly at both of my gun clubs. I've also belonged to 2 other gun clubs previously and none of them have/had a problem with it. One of my prior clubs was inhabited by strictly skeet/trap/bullseye shooters and a number of members told me that they didn't understand why I would ever carry a gun there! <DOH> None of them ever thought that "defensive carry" was necessary anywhere . . . to them the 2A means the ability to hunt or target shoot only. Don't belong there anymore, but quit for other reasons.
I always carry at the gun range. There isn't any rule against it there. You're just not allowed to draw from a holster there. I will also pull out my carry gun and shoot a few through it while I'm there too. I usually just pull a bore snake, if anything, through it before I load it back up and re-holster.
I shoot at an outdoor range and I do carry concealed at the range. And if it is only my wife or daughter with me I'll shoot a couple of mags in my carry gun.
I carry at my range. I practice drawing and firing my carry gun from my IWB holster along with all the other drills I do. My range is very pro CCW and teaches CCW classes. Everyone who works there carries either open or concealed also.
The range is really the only place I open carry. Everyone there has guns, so I don't think anyone will be freaked out by a guy with a pistol that's holstered in the open.
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