I think safer is usually the word only used for "at the range alone".

I was at an organized but unmanned range here in CO when bullets started raining down around me on the way to the shitter. Took cover behind the brick shitouse and waited to see if someone was shooting-shooting at me or what. Turns out someone had set a steel plate behind the range target hangers on the range behind me and the bullets being shot by this guy were leaving the range because of the plate angle. He didn't see them back there behind the target stand.

At another range a massive tree fell and smashed everything - it turns out it was outside the window of one of the shoot houses where the pop-up target came up. Eventually the 100,000 bullets that sucker soaked up felled the thing right before a match, and we would have been killed had we been shooting the match. this tree was massive - 16" diameter mid-height limbs and such.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-range-employee-accidentally-kills-customer-houston-police/

"The sheriff's office told KHOU TV that a male employee was cleaning a rifle when it accidentally discharged. The bullet passed through a wall and window, striking a man in another part of the range."


Never presume you are safer shooting at an organized range......Why in the hell would an employee of the facility be cleaning a LOADED rifle. Was it his and he was function checking and fucked up or was it a customers in which case why was there ammunition anywhere near it?

I do not remember this range when I lived down there it must be after my time as I lived within miles of that area.