Alcohol on a rifle range

[redryder]

At a range committee meeting the subject of alcohol was brought. I was wondering how other ranges controlled alcohol.
No booze
Designated areas
No drinking signs

 

[9mmfan]

The club I'm a member of just plain bans it. Period. None on the grounds. Make sense to me.

 

[churchmouse]

​No Booze.........None...........Nada.................Period.

 

[Bsubtown]

The handgun/rifle range I belong to bans it with a sign. However, no one is there, normally, to enforce it. I do not know about the policy at the clays range I go to. My guess is most places ban it for liability reasons. Easier to ban it and look the other way for guys having a beer in the parking lot after shooting than making it okay in some instances and having something go wrong.

 

[Mgderf]

I would not patronize a range that tolerated ANY alcohol anywhere on the property.

Alcohol + firearms = accident waiting to happen

 

[Bigtanker]

Guns and booze DO NOT MIX. I have noticed people drinking when I was a member at Edwardsburg C.C. in Michigan. I just left.

 

[Bsubtown]

My preference would be to allow it as a personal freedom issue. That being said; the person who needs to be told guns and booze don't mix is the guy you don't want shooting near sober or not.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Our range has signs posted that state: No alcoholic beverages allowed on the property. We also prohibit intoxicated people from the property.

 

[churchmouse]

My preference would be to allow it as a personal freedom issue. That being said; the person who needs to be told guns and booze don't mix is the guy you don't want shooting near sober or not.

Personal freedom be damned if you are on the range with someone under the influence.
I see and understand your point but people confuse freedom with I will do as I please to often. Common sense can not be relied upon.

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[Cameramonkey]

I would not patronize a range that tolerated ANY alcohol anywhere on the property.

Alcohol + firearms = accident waiting to happen

I saw a new upscale country club type indoor gun range with a bar on site online. As I recall to get into the bar you have to scan your member card. Once you scan your member card on that door, it "locks you out" of the range for the rest of the day by flagging your account so the RO at the range desk knows you are a no-go. Interesting concept.

But outside of something like that, Yes. alcohol at a range is a mistake.

 

[ART338WM]

I find it mind boggling that from a stand point of liabillity that any gun range would ever allow alcohol anywhere ever in any area of the entire range, ever, ever, period. Allowing alcohol is a range closing law suit just waiting to happen.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Well, in a bigger club I can see being able to have a cold One after shooting, but the only way to be Safe in such a situation would be something like what cameramonkey described. But for most smaller ranges/clubs it's just not feasible to do that, and so to me that makes alcohol a no go. I can always wait till later.

 

[bradmedic04]

Having one friend get "accidentally" shot by someone who had been drinking out on a hunt was enough for me. It's not a good idea, and the liability concerns sound like a nightmare/a lawyer's dream.

 

[Leo]

My clubs in Texas, both privately run, did not ban beer. The rule was the last shot had to come before the first beer. People would finish up, put their guns away and set on the club house porch drinking beer watching the other shooters. I was never really for beer on the range, but I never saw any problems by anyone due to misuse.

 

[hmaverick]

​No Booze.........None...........Nada.................Period.

I agree wth this. With the stakes as high as they are and the media coverage of any accident, booze and guns should never mix.

 

[Bennettjh]

Alcohol at a gun range is a terrible idea IMHO.

 

[1911ly]

Personal freedom be damned if you are on the range with someone under the influence.
I see and understand your point but people confuse freedom with I will do as I please to often. Common sense can not be relied upon.

Post #5

This right here!!! I can't agree enough.

 

[sbcman]

Heck no.

I shot a major match in TN once where some guys brought the beer out after the match. I really couldn't believe it and left as quick as I could.

 

[ModernGunner]

As soon as booze is brought up, it automatically follows that someone will start griping that 'we're gonna have a buncha wild drunks out there shooting the weather vane on top of the clubhouse! No, no, no!' We hear the same thing if anyone on INGO mentions they've had even so much as a sip of liquor while carrying. It's ludicrous, ridiculous, and beyond hypocritical.

This is the same type of rhetoric that libtards always use, and it's just as dumb: 'If you let some guy just starting carrying a gun around at the shopping center or restaurant, we'll have a bunch of vigilante psychos shooting up the place! No, no, no!'

"Accident waiting to happen"? That's EXACTLY the same thing the left-loon, anti-gun, libtards say about YOU carrying a firearm in public.

Even worse, these same 'nay-sayers' will fervently post their absolute endorsement of legalizing and smoking pot. Would they, then, accept someone smoking pot while at the range? Or will they be hypocrites about that, as well?

It's more than 'ironic', it's a libtard mindset.

IF you can't expect and envision members / attendees being as responsible with imbibing as they are with their firearms, WHY would you allow that person (or persons) on the range to begin with?

We should expect (and 'demand') that folks be responsible in their composure at all times, in every manner. With their firearms, and with their choice of beverage. Everyone is accountable for their actions, at all times.

Either you're in favor of personal choices, and responsible behavior with those choices, or your not. Period.

How 'bout this: Act responsibly.

 

[Vigilant]

Heck no.

I shot a major match in TN once where some guys brought the beer out after the match. I really couldn't believe it and left as quick as I could.

Why? You, yourself, said AFTER the match?