Carrying handguns at the Range?

The range I shoot at is a good set up in my opinion. There is a three month mandatory wait period for an ATT where you need to repeatedly come out and prove you firearm safety; someone alwasy has an extra handgun around for new members. After the first few times out, and safe handling is shown, someone will hand the new member (not new shooter) a holster and show them what is required of them to remain safe. The person that certifies the new ATT's is a certified CDP instructor. By the time the 3 months is up, the shooters are either fully capable of safely handling their firearm within a holster, or they do not get an ATT. Once that is done, we prefer shooters to carry in a holster to determine that an unlocked firearm is safely with the onwer.
 
COREY said:
The range I shoot at is a good set up in my opinion. There is a three month mandatory wait period for an ATT where you need to repeatedly come out and prove you firearm safety; someone alwasy has an extra handgun around for new members. After the first few times out, and safe handling is shown, someone will hand the new member (not new shooter) a holster and show them what is required of them to remain safe. The person that certifies the new ATT's is a certified CDP instructor. By the time the 3 months is up, the shooters are either fully capable of safely handling their firearm within a holster, or they do not get an ATT. Once that is done, we prefer shooters to carry in a holster to determine that an unlocked firearm is safely with the onwer.
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Man Im glad I dont live in Bantario
 
COREY said:
The range I shoot at is a good set up in my opinion. There is a three month mandatory wait period for an ATT where you need to repeatedly come out and prove you firearm safety; someone alwasy has an extra handgun around for new members. After the first few times out, and safe handling is shown, someone will hand the new member (not new shooter) a holster and show them what is required of them to remain safe. The person that certifies the new ATT's is a certified CDP instructor. By the time the 3 months is up, the shooters are either fully capable of safely handling their firearm within a holster, or they do not get an ATT. Once that is done, we prefer shooters to carry in a holster to determine that an unlocked firearm is safely with the onwer.
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Wow, what a pain in the ass.

Our range you pay the membership fee, you get the keycard to the range and a copy the rules. You get your ATT from the CFO by calling them. Then you go shooting. it can be done in a day or 2.
 
Gatehouse said:
Wow, what a pain in the ass.

Our range you pay the membership fee, you get the keycard to the range and a copy the rules. You get your ATT from the CFO by calling them. Then you go shooting. it can be done in a day or 2.
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For the range here... let's see....

Paid my fee, told I'd get my membership card in the mail but in the mean time here's a temporary one and told to check the website on the range schedule. Got no pamphlet with the rules and there is no locked gate to go through.
 
To answer the OP, yes, I do carry while on range. If I'm not shooting pistols that day then no, but when I am its on my hip. Doesn't matter whether its my Tok or my 22/45, I've made high ride, FBI style holsters for both. If its just rifle then it depends if I know the others on the range; if not then I pull the bolts and take them with me. Reportedly there have been thefts from our range in the distant past. With this in mind if it happens to me I certainly don't want my firearms involved in any illegal activities so I will not make it easy for anyone.
Cheers!!
 
Man Im glad I dont live in Bantario
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It is not as much Ontario as the fact I shoot on a military base. We know that one civilian injury pretty much boots all of us off the ranges. The next nearest range is a joke compared to the facilities we use, and at less than half the cost. We run many drills drawing and firing from holsters while moving; I am quite happy to know the dude beside me should be as safe as I am.
 
COREY said:
It is not as much Ontario as the fact I shoot on a military base. We know that one civilian injury pretty much boots all of us off the ranges. The next nearest range is a joke compared to the facilities we use, and at less than half the cost. We run many drills drawing and firing from holsters while moving; I am quite happy to know the dude beside me should be as safe as I am.
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Ranges can make whatever rules they want..I get that part..what I dont get is the ATT thing..An ATT has nothing to do with firearm safety..its a bulls**t piece of paper that allows you to transport your firearm from your home to the range.


Somehow it has become some type of safety certificate..
 
"Just goes to show you the Liberals are gaining more and more followers...sadly even SOME gun owners too. If it only saves ONE life..."

Yeah really.

I'm just scratching my head trying to figure out why cops guns don't just start firing every time they get in and out of the police cruiser?

Or a Brinks guard is loading money in an ATM and his holstered gun just starts shooting up the bank for no apparent reason.

Could it be that holsters are actually a safe place to keep a handgun?
 
Dexter Morgan said:
"Just goes to show you the Liberals are gaining more and more followers...sadly even SOME gun owners too. If it only saves ONE life..."

Yeah really.

I'm just scratching my head trying to figure out why cops guns don't just start firing every time they get in and out of the police cruiser?

Or a Brinks guard is loading money in an ATM and his holstered gun just starts shooting up the bank for no apparent reason.

Could it be that holsters are actually a safe place to keep a handgun?
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You mean the same Brinks guards that SHOT THE CEILING in an indoor range due to lack of experince? They still don't shoot at everyone and there holsters guns are *GASP* loaded!
 
People need to start applying common sense to ATT issuing.

For example:

Complete new guy who has never touched a pistol before, I can totally see giving them a mentor and having a FEW supervised shoots. Most working people don't have the time to do 80 million hours worth of supervised shooting though.

A friend of mine whos been in the Military for almost a decade, qualified as a Military RO and had an ATT for the past 5 years at another club in a different area of Canada, but had it expired because he was away for a year and just got posted to a new base has to start at square one? Seriously?
 
Grunt21 said:
People need to start applying common sense to ATT issuing.

For example:

Complete new guy who has never touched a pistol before, I can totally see giving them a mentor and having a FEW supervised shoots. Most working people don't have the time to do 80 million hours worth of supervised shooting though.
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An ATT is simply to transport a restricted firearm. If one possesses an ATT, it is because they have an RPAL already issued to them.
What do you mean "giving them a mentor"? who? another gov bureaucrat to further shove down their throat the lack of freedoms they're enjoying going through the licensing, registering, att'ing process? And who pays the bill for these supervised shoots? certainly hope not the tax payer
 
Griffoneur said:
It has been scientifically proven that the safest place for a handgun loaded or not, is IN YOUR HOLSTER and ON YOUR BELT.
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+1 Both of the clubs I belong to allow holstered pistols down range on a cease fire, if you see me with a holstered handgun on a range (outside of a competition), it's loaded - period.
 
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