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

[jplove71]

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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.

[blackford76]

What could possibly go wrong?

[zteknik]

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.

[HoneyBadger]

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...

[Great-Kazoo]

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

[kidicarus13]

Sounds like a hard sell to the insurance company.

[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.

[JoeT]

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

[Wiggity]

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.

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.

[DD977GM2]

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.

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