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If that was the price I had to pay to shoot in a "Bozo Free Zone" then I'd pay it, very reluctanly, but I'd pay it.
 
I sure am glad we have a rifle and pistol club near my house. $50 per year membership and a nice big indoor range open 24/7 for members. Lots of times I'm there by myself rarely a lot of others there are the same unless there's a practice or competition under way. Nobody is going to be grabbing someone else's pistol.
 
Depends on the Range. If he was a former DI he just did it out of habit. Relax and enjoy your Glock. Remember it is a piece of machinery not your Wife or Girlfriend he was handling.
 
How old was he?
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At GAT Guns in Dundee, IL there is no range officer. You're on your own for the most part. Every now and then one of the employees will walk through just to check up on everyone or sweep up the brass. The guys at the range counter do keep an eye on what's going on via video cameras.
 
That's silly but whatever. Maybe he thought you were limp wristing it and wanted to show you (without saying it) that the malfunction was operator error.
 
scaatylobo said:
I was a RO for my police agency and would have done the same to any shooter.

And since you didnt say if that RO was an LEO or was actually legally responsible for your actions = I go with a good call on his behalf.
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Typical...

Because as we all know LEO's are the only one's here qualified to handle a gun. :cuss:
 
Makarovnik, I wasn't limp wristing my technique was good, the Problem with the round not feeding well was when I loaded the magazine I put it in the gun chambered a round and pulled the trigger and nothing happened I thought it was a hang fire or a dud, I waited a few seconds and racked the slide and looked at the round the primer wasn't struck:confused: then the RO came over...
 
He also did something that made me mad besides picking up and shooting the gun without my permission, he used the "slide stop" like a slide release when he chambered the round, something I never do , I use the overhand technique.
 
jerkface11 said:
Who cares if the guy was a cop or not?
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Yeah, not sure why that would matter.


Buck Snort said:
If that was the price I had to pay to shoot in a "Bozo Free Zone" then I'd pay it, very reluctanly, but I'd pay it.
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IMO if someone is coming over touching my gun and shooting it without so much as telling me what he was about to do...then he is a "Bozo" and the OP was shooting in a Bozo heavy zone.
 
I would think that if it was my gun having the FTF, I would want to know what was wrong, and how to fix it, and not have the RO just come over and solve the problem for me. Or at least asked if he could handle the gun and try to figure it out, only after he had made verbal suggestions to me on how to fix it, unsuccessfully.

On another note, at least you are able to go shooting these days. It is like -7 degrees here, and not an indoor range within hundreds of miles.....
 
At the range I go to ( state range) the range boys never touch your weapons---they do yell at you if you get near your bench when the folks are down range at their targets.
They do have one bad habit--each person must police up his own brass--when a certain group of people walks away without cleaning up--the range officers go politically correct & don't say anything to them. Then they tell someone else to clean up their station.
I find this extremely irritating---but this is the new America.
 
I'm a range officer at the club to which I belong.

None of the range officers would touch a member's gun without permission unless the member was committing an unsafe act, the gun was not properly cleared during a ceasefire, or the gun was obviously unsafe (doubling, for instance).
 
I have had this happen BUT the RO would just stand behind/beside me and observe. I can't imagine someone thinking they have the right to pick up someone else property without asking. Time for a FTF with a higher up and ask if this is the policy. If it is I would let them know you are going to stop coming there and will advise your friends to do the same.
 
also a different RO passed bay during the cease fire period(they walk by and make sure people have their guns on the table with the action open an unloaded during cease fire) he picked it up and flipped it so he could see the chamber, which in my opinion was unnecessary since all he had to do was look on the other side of the gun:mad: He later said when I was leaving "thats a nice gun" but he didn't shoot it ,it was the other RO.This is why I think the other RO shot my gun because he wanted too!:fire:
 
That would definitely make me mad. At the time I'd probably just be annoyed, but after a few minutes I'd be a lot more than that.

People shouldn't touch my firearms without permission, especially when they're loaded. I don't care who you are.
 
I've also been a range officer in CCW classes and law enforcement, and I would never act that arrogant. If that ass would have grabbed my gun, I would have told him to put it down or I'd be forced to "restrain him", just to get his attention. Sure he can expell you from the range, after the incident, but he'd better have a pretty good reason for grabbing a loaded gun, and in the instance you described, I don't think he did (by your account, you were not doing anything dangerous). I probably would not have taken my hand off it, and that would have made things interesting from the get-go..............
 
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