Well,
I have only been to a "offical" shooting range once in about 10 yrs now. This one folks are too busy buying skills and targets to pay attention to folks. I went to "coach" , a student, I may or may not have "schooled" and left with with cigar box, and it did not contain school supplies either.
See back in the day, a few ranges and such were being snooped on in regard to ordinances. Had folks bringing in recorders and such, besides cameras.
We had to crack down and fight back. I/We played the game better than they did. I mean for instance the folks lived under the flight path of a airport, and they had more dB's when Hee-Haw was on than the shooting going on miles down the road. Yes we recorded the stupid TeeVee with Hee-Haw blaring from the street.
I like this Civil Disobedience bit...
Then the boys with letters for agency names got to snooping, all this Clinton gonna save a village idiot, and other political games. We had BTDT before too.
So Respect was earned, might mean you needed someone to speak on your behalf before we warmed up to you had some problems with folks getting set up, even men-folk guilty of running around on wives - setting up the wife club member...we don't take kindly to folks messing with our kind - especially our women.
Now videos we made to assist in teaching shooters, let them see themselves shooting to assist in teaching. We had our picture taking for club events, and get togethers, the folks, kids, dogs, a kid getting grandpa's gun handed down to you...
We didn't let the press come in, unless invited, and we have been known to not be there when they showed up.
We are nice folks - we ain't stupid. We know Tyranny will pull fast ones.
So we pull our own - just first and faster.
Bunch of us broke away, we ain't been to a "offical range" in years.
We got a bit ticked off about "supposed" folks on our side going " won't come for my duck gun, black guns are evil, take'em all".
Got real ticked when some of these same "supposed" gun folks got to snooping, on some other disciplines, like IDPA, IPSC and such, filming and ...we got the film, we got the cameras too, and that bunch was blackballed, kicked out out clubs for selling / attempting to sell us out.
Had a run of "letter agency" folks snooping too. Gun shows more local, some had cameras, taking pictures and taking down liense plates. Got a bit heated around one area, some of us got smarter. We showed up in taxi cabs, and just went around tossing down a "business card" with "Hello Mr, ATF" - they knew, we knew.
All planned out, get about a dozen taxis to show up, hard to follow them all...
then again who says we left in the 3 taxis we arrived in?
See I have no problem with Oleg and folks doing what they do. Respected folks, parents, families and clubs doing what they do...
Now them Tyranny types can go pound gunpowder up orfices and sneeze for all I care.
Might explain why I don't go some places local either...
Oh them PETA folks get real ticked when you take Polarids of them keying cars and send 'em letters with all the stuff they talk about - stuff you sat there as dumb as a brick and listened to in a meeting.
Eyes get real big when they show up to take pictures at a range - and you have them on Polarid keying cars.
They were escorted out and off the property real nice.
Common sense , Courtesy, and Cover your own butt.