jminn1 wrote:I finished my business on the shooting range and exited. While I was waiting for the range manager to check me out, the guy next in line to go on to the range popped his large tactical rifle bag up on the counter and proceeded to partially unload the content. Since the facility I was at requires rifles to be trigger-locked while carrying them through the store, he was first of all miffed about having to have the range manager unlock his rifle. The guy hauls out shooting glasses, some targets, a silencer, and the rifle he's going to shoot. [insert sound of tires screeching to a halt] The range manager asks if he has the paperwork for silencer. The room goes kind of quiet. The guy becomes a bit confrontational, and asks the range manger if he is a LEO, to which the range manager says no, and then proceeds to politely explain that range requires the permit for the silencer to be presented, and that the police would be called if the permit cannot be produced. The guy gets out his phone and pulls up an image, then shoves the phone at the range manger and with demands of the range manager "do you know what that is?" The range manager examines the image on the phone and says "no, don't have any idea." The guy says "Its a dealer stamp". The range manager says "ok", and then dropped the issue..
I'm looking for a bit of education here, but am mostly just curious.
Was the range manager entitled to ask to see the permit for the silencer? I'm assuming it would be some sort of federal permit.
Would being a firearms dealer convey the proper level of permission to possess and deploy the silencer in that setting?
Is the image of a dealer license on a phone good enough, or should the actual permit for the silencer been required?
I learned one thing today for sure: Don't mess with the old guy behind the counter at the range!
I think that yes the Man was within his rights and needs to ask about the status of the person having a suppressor in his gear, Just being a FFL does not as I understand it convey you to possess a suppressor you have to have a endorsement stamp on your FFL that may be what the guy showed. I would think that the image if it had that persons name on the pic of a valid license would suffice as the license has to stay at the legal offices of the FFL's shop. and lastly yep ya never give the range control guy a ration of..... anytime ever unless your never going back