[penguicon-general] Questions regarding Geeks with Guns this year

[Garrett Kajmowicz]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:00, Illustrious niteshad wrote:
> I was reading http://www.penguicon.org/programming/guns and still have a
> few unanswered questions.  First of all, why is the word range always in
> quotes?  Are we going to a licensed range or not, here?  If it is a
> licensed range, public or private, which one is it and where is it located?
>  I'd like to know so I know which sorts of firearms it might be appropriate
> to bring to the range.  Showing up to an indoor range with my trap shotgun
> would not be a good time, for example.  Finally, why are we prohibitied
> from bringing our own ammo for our own firearms?

Hi, niteshad!

To answer your questions:  I'm not sure why range is in quotes.  I've asked 
the person who's in charge of the page to change that.  I assume that they 
were stylistic, and that they didn't count on there being any confusion.

The range in question is can be found online at :
http://www.firinglineguns.com/

They are an indoor range - their address is on their web page and printed 
directions will be printed out for the event itself starting from the hotel.

This is an indoor pistol range.  We decided to go with an indoor range because 
they are able to provide safety equipment (eyes and ears) along with firearm 
rentals.  In addition, indoor wether is much less risky this time of year!

Under their old policies (that I cannot find online any more), the range we 
are going to would allow people to bring their own ammunition, providing that 
it was inspected and approved by store/range officials.  However, since we 
are looking to have ~20 people at this event, having 20+ individual lots of 
ammunition approved would be unreasonable.  The simple way to address this is 
to prohibit outside ammunition coming in.  It makes the store like us more 
(for the ammo sales), and keeps the headaches down for everybody.


Please let me know if you have any other questions that I can answer.


-     Garrett