dragongoddess
member
A few thoughts on local gun shops and gun ranges. If you don't use them then you will lose them. Funky but true. You must do as much business as possible with your local shops and ranges. As to the shops they cannot stay in business with $25 transfer fees or what ever the local shop charges you. Oh I know its a pain to pay a few dollars more but that is the difference in having a shop or not having a shop. So what is your desire?
As to ranges its getting neigh on impossible to just go out into the sticks and run a couple hundred rounds through your weapons at an assortment of cans bottles or whatever. So you need to support your local ranges. Yea there is a membership fee and they may make you use their ammo but at least you will have a place to shoot when access to open land is gone. And it will soon be gone.
You see its easier to pass a law banning the discharge of firearms than it is to ban the firearms themselves. SO if there are no local shops or ranges this type of law is easily passed. Yet if there is a strong business support in opposition one can pretty much rest assured that such local laws won't get passed. Of course the only way there can be strong business opposition to something like this is if your local gun shops and ranges are financially strong and therefore have an interest to stay in business.
In other words "We have met the enemy and it is US"
So suppport your local shops and ranges or they won't be there next time.
As to ranges its getting neigh on impossible to just go out into the sticks and run a couple hundred rounds through your weapons at an assortment of cans bottles or whatever. So you need to support your local ranges. Yea there is a membership fee and they may make you use their ammo but at least you will have a place to shoot when access to open land is gone. And it will soon be gone.
You see its easier to pass a law banning the discharge of firearms than it is to ban the firearms themselves. SO if there are no local shops or ranges this type of law is easily passed. Yet if there is a strong business support in opposition one can pretty much rest assured that such local laws won't get passed. Of course the only way there can be strong business opposition to something like this is if your local gun shops and ranges are financially strong and therefore have an interest to stay in business.
In other words "We have met the enemy and it is US"
So suppport your local shops and ranges or they won't be there next time.