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sbc3530 · 08-22-2007, 07:00 PM

Happened here at a range in Bellevue, WA, not too very long ago. Also, several years ago, a guy walked into a sporting goods store in Seattle where they sold used shotguns and rifles that were displayed on stands that the public could access. He pulled a 12 gauge round out of his pocket, loaded it into a shotgun and shot himself. That put an end to the open gun racks.

So Flo · 08-22-2007, 07:13 PM

A local indoor range I go to has had this happen several times over the past couple years.
Quite sad...

GaryTx · 08-22-2007, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by bountyhunter

The ranges around here flatly refuse to rent to any single person who walks in. period. For this very reason.

Huh? You can't rent a lane unless you come with a shooting partner?

tec · 08-22-2007, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by RockinXD

Just saw on local news that some guy went in to a gun range today to rent a gun and when he got inside the range he committed suicide using the very gin he rented...Luckily no one else was hurt though..

What range?? or at least the city, please?

RockinXD · 08-22-2007, 08:41 PM

Target Sports on Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak

Maximum1 · 08-22-2007, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TYFOON

At my range they only will rent you a gun if you walk in with a working gun.

I always wondered why that was....

Sad.

+1 That's the policy at my range two...Never knew why...Now I do.

mikerulzu · 08-22-2007, 11:59 PM

I know the range I frequent will only rent guns to people who bring their own or to a group of people.

Lucky Strike · 08-23-2007, 05:26 AM

yesterday i was at the range and they have the 'can't rent one unless you bring one rule'....i asked and they said due to suicides...weird that i see this story the next day.

bartonmd · 08-23-2007, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by mgregg85

The gun control nuts will simply tout this as a reason to ban guns while disregarding the fact that many will kill themselves with knives or pills or any other object available. Rather than attempting to solve the root of the problem they will want to ban the means. Their "ban guns to prevent suicide" argument should be in Webster's under "Idiocy" or "Asinine".

I was having a "conversation" about guns in the home with a woman on a chat board once. One of her reasons for people to not have a gun in the house was because of some stat that said that some high % of people who kill themselves with a gun. She actually said "not having a gun in your house can't 100% GUARANTEE nobody kills themself, but it till make it next to impossible"

MIke

Ishpeck · 08-23-2007, 06:26 AM

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One of her reasons for people to not have a gun in the house was because of some stat that said that some high % of people who kill themselves with a gun.

If we let our lives revolve around suicide, we'd only ever get laid by crazy, eighty-year-old women.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/

08-22-2007, 07:13 PM	#12
So Flo XDTalk 10K Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Wellington, Florida Posts: 12,829	A local indoor range I go to has had this happen several times over the past couple years. Quite sad... __________________ No Guns, Know Crime. Know Guns, No Crime! http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member3984.png

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08-22-2007, 07:00 PM	#11
sbc3530 XDTalk Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 58	Happened here at a range in Bellevue, WA, not too very long ago. Also, several years ago, a guy walked into a sporting goods store in Seattle where they sold used shotguns and rifles that were displayed on stands that the public could access. He pulled a 12 gauge round out of his pocket, loaded it into a shotgun and shot himself. That put an end to the open gun racks.

08-22-2007, 11:59 PM	#17
mikerulzu XDTalk Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 37	I know the range I frequent will only rent guns to people who bring their own or to a group of people.

08-23-2007, 05:26 AM	#18
Lucky Strike XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 168	yesterday i was at the range and they have the 'can't rent one unless you bring one rule'....i asked and they said due to suicides...weird that i see this story the next day.