Thanks. I will look at Agawam but please keep me informed if and when S&W reopens.
You can also check out Northampton Revolver Club
http://www.northamptonrevolverclub.org/ .
We have a nice indoor range also.
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Thanks. I will look at Agawam but please keep me informed if and when S&W reopens.
You can also check out Northampton Revolver Club
http://www.northamptonrevolverclub.org/ .
We have a nice indoor range also.
Thanks for the invite. How`s the indoor range?
At one time not too long ago S&W used to require a safety "class' before shooting if you didn't already have a permit. I (an NRA pistol and rifle instructor) would bring friends who never shot before there to experience it for the first time. S&W made them sit through a safety film. It sounds like they had suspended that practice for one reason or another.
Rome
The S&W Shooting Center will be reopened in July as a Privet Club, training will also resume shortly after the reopen.
Well, now. This begs the question can CT permit holders join a private club in MA and shoot there without a MA license? Seems to me that nothing has really changed and since this will be a club and not a sanctioned meet, the answer is still 'no'. I wish there was a way we could but FOPA won't cut it here.
Smith and Wesson finally came clean with a more detailed statement as reported by the Springfield Republican. Apparently an accused killer, Manuel Lora used the facility back on May 28, 2011. Apparently two other convicted felons also used the range.
For the complete story please go to: http://www.masslive.com/business-ne...smith_wesson_shooting_sports_center_temp.html
Channel 3 in Springfield led the 6 p.m. news with this last night, like it wasn't in the newspaper last week. The S&W range has signs on all the doors saying no felons may enter the premises. If they can't do an instant CORI check, how the hell are the guys on the desk supposed to know the renters are convicted felons, much less that they're going to kill someone NEXT YEAR?
If they can't do an instant CORI check, how the hell are the guys on the desk supposed to know the renters are convicted felons, much less that they're going to kill someone NEXT YEAR?
“In keeping with our long-standing role as a responsible member of our community, we have always operated our shooting sports center in full compliance with all applicable laws, procedures, and regulations, with the safety of our customers and our community as our paramount objective,” Sharp said.
Don,
I appreciate your post and concerns but I fear that you are a victim of your own provincialism. Any public range that I have ever gone to from Arizona to New Hampshire has always had some kind of safety briefing and acknowledgement prior to renting range time. In the case of S&W one actually had to watch a video prior to going on to the range, and acknowledge that the safety rules were understood. Now when did you go to the S&W Shooting Sports Center, and not acknowledge in writing that you were familiar with the range rules?
What concerns me the most is your opening statement: It blows my mind that they would let unlicensed people use the range..." You see my friend Don, this is the first but subtle step in the process of accepting gun licensure as a the norm, rather than the abridgement of a natural right. I totally agree that with rights come responsibilities and one has an obligation to use firearms safely (just as one does not falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theater)...but to see licensure as an accepted norm, is a bit distressing. You do see how we are being conditioned, next thing you know, one is prompted to ask"what is really wrong with reasonable gun control laws? I hope that someday you will have the opportunity to reside in a state where no licenses are required (AK, AZ, VT, for instance).
So why is it closed? Grow a pair and place the blame where it belongs.
Thats great, but given the discussion so far, it sounds like it would be possible for someone who has never handled a firearm to walk in, rent a gun, go to a stall and with some extra assistance from the RO, begin shooting.
Is that correct?
I find that disturbing. Not from a rights perspective. But from a business perspective. I would rather not shoot somewhere where that is possible.
I think many other customers would choose not to shoot there if they knew that.
Thats great, but given the discussion so far, it sounds like it would be possible for someone who has never handled a firearm to walk in, rent a gun, go to a stall and with some extra assistance from the RO, begin shooting.
Is that correct?
I find that disturbing. Not from a rights perspective. But from a business perspective. I would rather not shoot somewhere where that is possible. I think many other customers would choose not to shoot there if they knew that.
I'm not saying that you can't teach yourself to shoot. I learned to shoot pretty much the same way. Books and self taught. But I was out in the woods. There wasn't another person 2 feet from me.
Don
Thats great, but given the discussion so far, it sounds like it would be possible for someone who has never handled a firearm to walk in, rent a gun, go to a stall and with some extra assistance from the RO, begin shooting.
Is that correct?
I find that disturbing. Not from a rights perspective. But from a business perspective. I would rather not shoot somewhere where that is possible. I think many other customers would choose not to shoot there if they knew that.
I'm not saying that you can't teach yourself to shoot. I learned to shoot pretty much the same way. Books and self taught. But I was out in the woods. There wasn't another person 2 feet from me.
If you think that's disturbing, never EVER go to American Firearms School.Thats great, but given the discussion so far, it sounds like it would be possible for someone who has never handled a firearm to walk in, rent a gun, go to a stall and with some extra assistance from the RO, begin shooting.
Is that correct?
I find that disturbing. Not from a rights perspective. But from a business perspective. I would rather not shoot somewhere where that is possible. I think many other customers would choose not to shoot there if they knew that.
I'm not saying that you can't teach yourself to shoot. I learned to shoot pretty much the same way. Books and self taught. But I was out in the woods. There wasn't another person 2 feet from me.
Don
Thats great, but given the discussion so far, it sounds like it would be possible for someone who has never handled a firearm to walk in, rent a gun, go to a stall and with some extra assistance from the RO, begin shooting.
Is that correct?
I find that disturbing. Not from a rights perspective. But from a business perspective. I would rather not shoot somewhere where that is possible. I think many other customers would choose not to shoot there if they knew that.
I'm not saying that you can't teach yourself to shoot. I learned to shoot pretty much the same way. Books and self taught. But I was out in the woods. There wasn't another person 2 feet from me.
Don
When I first joined the S&W Performance Center(03/04) there were no RO`s on the firing line. I think a suicide on the line convinced them to add the RO.