This is all kinds of stupid. Alcohol at a gun range?

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A Georgia couple is building a $3.5 million indoor shooting range that will feature a full bar, serving alcohol to its patrons.

So is this the start of a potentially dangerous new business model where intoxicated firearm enthusiasts will literally be shooting from the hip? Well, not exactly.

WSB-TV reports that Lakeside Guns Shop owner Kristina Brown plans to open the multimillion-dollar indoor range with her husband in Powder Springs. And when it comes to being state of the art, the Governor's Gun Club will not only have the best technology available to marksmen, it will also have Maker's Mark.

That's because by a vote of 4-1, the Powder Springs City Council approved an alcohol permit for the establishment.

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What could possibly go wrong?

Holy crap!!!!
Now that's insane!!!

Thats worse than the skate and shoot they had in Connecticut!-It was an indoor shooting range sharing the target wall with a skating rink.

Having some beers after shooting sounds great, but there would have to be a pretty foolproof system in place to ensure that there is no gun handling after the drinking. Sounds like an insurance nightmare...

If they drink no range access, no issue there. How many drinkers after skeet & trap, or any competition stop in for one or 2?

Sounds like a hard sell to the insurance company.

Personal accountability anyone? Nothing stops you drinking before or after the range the difference is simply the proximity of the the establishment serving the alcohol. If you stopped at the bar down the street before you got there and showed no obvious signs of intoxication is that bar owner liable? How about the range owner? What about the guys on prescription drugs? Maybe you should piss in a cup before you're allowed access?

Let's try to refrain from promoting laws based on a worst case scenario of what might happen. If it makes you uncomfortable to be at a range that also has a separate bar just go someplace else and let the market settle it. Personally I'd probably not visit that range but assuming everyone is so irresponsible that we shouldn't be permitted the choice sounds eerily similar to no one "needing a firearm designed for war" and other liberal nonsense. I'm a big boy and if I decide to drink I put the guns away, it's not my place to tell someone else they aren't as responsible.

the club I belonged to in Mass (in fact both clubs) had a full bar. In my 20+ years of being a member there, not one AD/ND. .

It was self policed too. shooting before drinking only if you were drinking at the bar you could not enter the range area or skeet fields.

One of the clubs, if you were at the indoor range, you had to walk through the bar to get there, if you decided to drink you had to hand the bartender your gun(s) before he'd poor you a drink. Bar area had pool tables, darts, shuffleboard, big TVs- it reminded me of a VFW type of set up.

and they often rented out the hall upstairs for weddings and b-day parties. so there would be shooting in the "basement" and a party on the first floor

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Originally Posted by Whistler

Personal accountability anyone? Nothing stops you drinking before or after the range the difference is simply the proximity of the the establishment serving the alcohol. If you stopped at the bar down the street before you got there and showed no obvious signs of intoxication is that bar owner liable? How about the range owner? What about the guys on prescription drugs? Maybe you should piss in a cup before you're allowed access?

Let's try to refrain from promoting laws based on a worst case scenario of what might happen. If it makes you uncomfortable to be at a range that also has a separate bar just go someplace else and let the market settle it. Personally I'd probably not visit that range but assuming everyone is so irresponsible that we shouldn't be permitted the choice sounds eerily similar to no one "needing a firearm designed for war" and other liberal nonsense. I'm a big boy and if I decide to drink I put the guns away, it's not my place to tell someone else they aren't as responsible.

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This. Geez.

You guys sound like a bunch of liberals crying about how the gubment isn't protecting it's citizens from this idea because something MIGHT go wrong that could easily go wrong at any shooting range.

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Originally Posted by Whistler

Personal accountability anyone? Nothing stops you drinking before or after the range the difference is simply the proximity of the the establishment serving the alcohol. If you stopped at the bar down the street before you got there and showed no obvious signs of intoxication is that bar owner liable? How about the range owner? What about the guys on prescription drugs? Maybe you should piss in a cup before you're allowed access?

Let's try to refrain from promoting laws based on a worst case scenario of what might happen. If it makes you uncomfortable to be at a range that also has a separate bar just go someplace else and let the market settle it. Personally I'd probably not visit that range but assuming everyone is so irresponsible that we shouldn't be permitted the choice sounds eerily similar to no one "needing a firearm designed for war" and other liberal nonsense. I'm a big boy and if I decide to drink I put the guns away, it's not my place to tell someone else they aren't as responsible.

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While we are at it lets just ban firearms because someday someone may shoot and kill another person. [Bang][Bang][Bang][Bang][Bang][Bang][Bang]

It's is the"A" part in the ATF? hahahaaha
Come hunting in Louisiana:)

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Originally Posted by Wiggity

This. Geez.

You guys sound like a bunch of liberals crying about how the gubment isn't protecting it's citizens from this idea because something MIGHT go wrong that could easily go wrong at any shooting range.

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This truely is how I feel about everyone else's comments. Who here has not had a
6 pack or 12 pack to share with the folks you went shooting with after all the firearms are put up and area you shoot has been policed of brass???Its called personal responsibility. Should we not drink in our homes because our firearms
are in the same house as us drinking?
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Colorado clays allows alcohol but they don't serve it

Alcohol will calm your nerves and give less pulse bounce so you can make precision shots (right?).
I am waiting for them to add a cigar room and call it Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.

Yeah...I see it more as sensational "news" hype than a real problem. I think it's a fine idea and bet they'll probably do a pretty good business.

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Originally Posted by 10x

I am waiting for them to add a cigar room and call it Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.

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Already been done...probably several times. My gun store was co-located with a liquor store and we put up our lighted "Alcohol*Tobacco*Firearms" sign in 2000.

they need is to add a poker table and a whore hose to make it a truly great idea

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Originally Posted by alxone

they need is to add a poker table and a whore hose to make it a truly great idea

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One-Shot-Stopping!

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Originally Posted by Wiggity

This. Geez.

You guys sound like a bunch of liberals crying about how the gubment isn't protecting it's citizens from this idea because something MIGHT go wrong that could easily go wrong at any shooting range.

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^^This

Sheesh ... lets ban guns and alcohol because someone might buy a gun in one town, drive to the next one and buy a beer.

We've become real stupid about alcohol in this country ... we blame it for everything when the real problem is people and their lack of responsibility and accountability. Well sorry folk, you don't get to live in a free society AND keep everyone on a short leash.

Just ban people ... problem solved.

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Originally Posted by alxone

they need is to add a poker table and a whore hose to make it a truly great idea

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I think I'd call it....home

They will not permit alcohol in the range itself because you can get lead contamination in your beer, so it should be alright. It is Georgia, after all. Half the shooters probably were drinking a beer on the drive over to the range.

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Originally Posted by alxone

they need is to add a poker table and a whore hose to make it a truly great idea

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21 post and I am the only one who wants to know what a Whore HOSE is??[ROFL1][ROFL3][ROFL2]

I've been hosed by them but never actually seen a Whore Hose. Must be some cross dresser thing.

How many people have a beer at the campfire during hunting season....there are guns present there, right? No one bitches about that. It's all about personal responsibility.

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Originally Posted by Wiggity

I think I'd call it....home

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MF exactly!!! I think I'd call it....home

:)

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Originally Posted by jim

21 post and I am the only one who wants to know what a Whore HO'S is??[ROFL1][ROFL3][ROFL2]

I've been hosed by them but never actually seen a Whore Hose. Must be some cross dresser thing.

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It's a double plural [ROFL1]

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

Already been done...probably several times. My gun store was co-located with a liquor store and we put up our lighted "Alcohol*Tobacco*Firearms" sign in 2000.

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And for those that may be new to the area.... Seems like just yesterday the place was open. Would stop in if I was going out the top side from BCGC. [Flower] And for the record we always have a few after a day of shooting down at Fal Fest at Raton.

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Originally Posted by Clint45

They will not permit alcohol in the range itself because you can get lead contamination in your beer...

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Funny side story.

Back in the old days, commercial printers used to use leaded gasoline to clean their presses ... in those days many pressmen became hard core alcoholics because about the only way to get the lead taste out of your mouth was with beer.

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Yea! drinking games with firearms! A shot after every "shot" and see who has the better grouping! Nothing could go wrong with that right....Hahahahaha!

In Soviet Russia, drunk conscripts won a war against Nazi Germany.

ERMAHGERD!!!!

you people listening to liberal media again...


They do not allow use of the firing range for the rest of the day after a patron has been served a drink...
I shoot here

this is liberal scare tactics and you guys fell for it...


Shame on you for not fact checking

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