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txinvestigator wrote:So these people think that you will shoot someone if you take out your carry gun on the line, but you won't shoot someone with one your remove from the bag and load at the line?

Yes. I'm not nearly as nervous about somebody fumbling with a gun pointed downrange, as one that somebody's trying to tug out of a cheap, ill-fitting SoB, cross-draw, or horizontal shoulder holster.

Certainly the holes in the walls and ceilings of any indoor range attest to the number of NDs that happen on the line, but those are more acceptable to me, from a safety standpoint, than letting anybody who walks in regularly sweep the entire range with a loaded gun as they try to draw it.

This is a great reason to have more than one carry gun. I just switch out my carry, and keep all the guns I'll be shooting at the range unloaded in my range bag, and there are never any problems.

I think enough CHLs (not many perhaps, but enough) have proven that they're capable of NDs when trying to handle a loaded carry weapon that a range owner's nervousness about this action isn't entirely unreasonable.

Sure, *you* know that you're safe at handling your carry weapon, but how does a public range owner know the difference between you and the yahoos that regularly shoot themselves at gunshows? If it were me, I'd err on the safe side and reduce the chance that I'd have to clean up the mess too.

Clubs are different...You can hold the members to a higher standard. Public ranges however, well, personally I'd rather be slightly inconvenienced than raise the risk of being shot by the guy in the next lane any higher.