Lead bullets should be banned at the range?

[fredj338]

Yeah, she was an emotional moron, imagine that?? There is more danger shooting indoors w/ jacketed than shooting outdoors w/ lead. Tell her to piss off & soap box on something she knows something about.

[softpoint]

I'd have explained that my diet occasionally produced poison gas, but not my shooting....

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

Or

[Sonnypie]

Makes me wonder why they were at the range at all?

I have an elder Sister who is an MFCC. (Marriage, Family, Child, Counselor)
After expounding about a 7 year old and his tales of bear hunting with his dad, and his violent video games, she is convinced this kid is going to be ruined.
I interjected that who did she think was flying the predator drones in Afghanistan? Young men and women who were really good at video games.
I've come to the conclusion she has just drank Too Much of the Kool-Aid.
Probably the same in your case....

Did they have their plastic Tree Hugger chains and locks in their trunk?

They are out there, and they vote. Obama is the proof!

[zxcvbob]

I have an elder Sister who is an MFCC. (Marriage, Family, Child, Counselor)

I thought the MF stood for something else. (on the other hand, I thought NE meant Nebraska)

[JohnFM]

All sorts of wackos hanging around ranges these days.
I'm glad 99% of my shooting is at home.
My handgun range is about a 30 foot walk.
Table out to the rifle range is a couple hundred feet.

[Hang Fire]

Should have told him you wanted free non-lead boolits paid for by taxpayers.

[1Shirt]

Ya, what Beagle said! AND, there is an old yankee saying that applies!
"H'aint nothing more rightous than a reformed prostitute"! And the "ya can't fix stupid" line of Ron White applies as well!
1Shirt!

[Lead Fred]

Have them dig though the bank behind the targets and see how many of thier jacketed bullets have came apart, and have lead showing.

Pure hogwash.

This type of thinking is what got wheel weights banned on the left coast. Even tho lead can be found in ever state where its banned.

[madsenshooter]

IPSC matches are usually conducted outside.

Our range, an indoor range, has banned lead boolits for exactly this reason.

I don't know anything about outdoor ranges, except that everyone has to wait on everyone else to look at their targets, and you don't get to choose the length of the range you're shooting at.

At most of the outdoor ranges here, you'd have to be dating someone's daughter to be considered to go before the board and make a case that you should be allowed to draw from a holster, and then you couldn't fire faster than once a minute. Or whatever it is.

So I stuck with my indoor range.

What, no good looking daughters?

[Old Caster]

Tell them to look up on the internet which way the earth is turning and get on the appropriate side of all lead shooters. Also explain that some nut somewhere mined the lead you are using and you are dutifully replacing it but need help. -- Bill --

[beagle]

steg...sorry, not directed at anyone here. That woud be preaching to the choir./beagle

not all of us Yankees are liberals, here in PA we republicans are outnumbered 3 to 1 and I find that the libs up here aren't libs, their just follow the leader stupid. I've had one tell me that the republicans were the ones that were trying to take our guns away

[RobS]

The nutcases are all over and they take any opportunity to be, well ... the best nutcases they can be. Maybe it was a isolated instance and won't happen again. But it seems to me their kind are multiplying at an alarming rate.

Maybe not the best response, but I've been known to just keep doing what I was doing and let them rant. They can't stand it when you ignore them.

Bingo.......and it's actually quite fun to watch them self-implode and pick up there things and leave.

[AndyC]

this guy and his wife come over and start giving me a rash of #$#& about how non-jacketed boolits should be banned and how I was endangering everyone’s health by shooting them. You see I’m spreading poison gas according to him.

Yet he's perfectly happy to drive past a school in his gas-guzzler and poison the kids with his emissions, right?

I have no patience for people like that - the term "GTFO now" comes to mind.

[175lt2]

It may seem like the NE is all liberals but that's far from the case. PA is Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on the other and Alabama in the middle. Unfortunately the cities have a larger population then the rest of the state so the normal people are out numbered.

I am a rude prick to people like that. I would have told them about the lead in the primers that they were shooting. Showed them a FMJ bullet with it's exposed base. And then proceed to tell them to stop harassing me before I ask for his membership card to get his information and then call every board member. And if he couldn't present a membership card I would get their license plate number and report them to the cops for trespassing. It's what we are supposed to do if someone doesn't have their card and are causing problems.


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I live in northern Allegheny county (north of Pittsburgh) And even this area is sort of like Alabama, Everyone hunts owns guns and shoots but there are a few Zombies that escape the city every now and then

[Jammer Six]

You guys are confused about how indoor ranges operate.

[KYCaster]

You guys are confused about how indoor ranges operate.

You're right Jammer, I'm really confused about how the indoor range nearest me operates.

His hi-tech ventilation system requires a certain percentage of fresh air intake and the cost to heat/cool the incoming air is a major expense so he doesn't use the heat/ac. When customers complain about the range being too hot/cold he just turns off the vent system so they quit complaining.

He saves a bundle on utility bills that way.

Jerry

[KaliforniaRebel]

Man, if I could remember just half the stories from the range over the years...

I do remember one guy that had noticed me firing cast made by my older brother years ago. I dropped a round near the bench and as I cleaned up ready to go home, he set up in the stall I was at. I then watched as he bent over and picked it up with a kleenex and then walked over to the trash bin to throw it away.

I had to think about that for a couple of days to figure out why.

[bullethead]

Ya know, a little bit of info IS dangerous. At our range, we test sample the soil 2x per year and monitor the ph. If the ph is kept within a high and low limit, the lead will not leach. Yes lead is dangerous, and our range is being proactive about testing, which surely there will be EPA & DNR mandates in the future.

[ChuckS1]

Just your admission that lead is dangerous is an indication that the other side has already won...