http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/georgia-indoor-gun-range-given-liquor-license-opening-192214797.html

 

Yeah, this doesn't really sound like a fantastic idea. The concept is flawed, but at least their application of locking out the member's ID when they order a drink is a good start. Mixing firearms and alcohol usually ends up in a 911 call.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/georgia-indoor-gun-range-given-liquor-license-opening-192214797.html

 

Yeah, this doesn't really sound like a fantastic idea. The concept is flawed, but at least their application of locking out the member's ID when they order a drink is a good start. Mixing firearms and alcohol usually ends up in a 911 call.

 

I wouldn't be frequenting the place, either. But I think, "Mixing firearms and alcohol usually ends up in a 911 call" is sort of a broad statement. I've carried in bars dozens of times. And I've been to barbecues were there was casual drinking and range time. I choose to never drink before planning to handle firearms, but I am fine with carry, and I am fine with somebody else having a beer at a barbecue before range time.

Gentlemen - your thinking is flawed. There have been firearms ranges associated with "Gentlemen's Clubs" for years.

 

I've attended atleast two and they are self policing...Get my drift?

 

And about Powder Springs,GA...It's where Col. Gordon B. Ingram first manufactored the MAC-10. In Free America.

I used to shoot and then have a few here all the time, in NJ. Yes NJ. About 10 years (or more) they closed the range. Bummer.

 

http://www.rt23.com/links/Mountain_Rest_Inn.html

Key part of the article:

"Customers will have to order a drink with their identification card and once the card is accepted, and flagged, they cannot be checked back into the range that day," the statement reads.

 

I can see why it has raised some eyebrows, but if managed on the above I don't see a problem with it. The rest of the quotes in the article are a bit wonky though.

In the free world, where people grew up with firearms it is a commmon thing. I frequent a gun shop that is a bar/gun shop. Wait on your paperwork and drink a cold one. Also one of my gun clubs actually does a shotgun shoot occasionally and has an open bar. Guess what, there has NEVER been an accident....

I don't see anything wrong with it. The safeguards the article discussed seem like they will work. There will always be that one @$$hole but in bar where CC is allowed and at least the bartenders will be CCing I everything will turn out fine.

Go to the range, shoot some paper, then hit the bar for some conversation... i like the idea.. what's not to like about it if they don't let you on the range after you order one?

The Swiss shoot rifles and drink wine at the range on weekends. They dont have a problem.Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

There aint nothin wrong with a few good ole boys, a 12 pack of Piels, case of 12 gauge birdshot, a shotgun, a box of clays, and clay thrower. That to me is a hoot!

Does anybody remember "Jimmy's" bar in Garfield? We used to go downstairs to the range and shoot for beers.

 

Lock the pistols up and go upstairs to collect winnings.

 

Great ventilation... No wonder I have heavy metals poisoning... Must have been the beer...

Great ventilation... No wonder I have heavy metals poisoning... Must have been the beer...

 

I guess the cancer sticks have nothing to do with that! love ya grandpa

I guess the cancer sticks have nothing to do with that! love ya grandpa

 

PM sent to Ray Ray

I used to shoot and then have a few here all the time, in NJ. Yes NJ. About 10 years (or more) they closed the range. Bummer.

 

http://www.rt23.com/...n_Rest_Inn.html

I didn't know they had a range at one time.

 

To say that place is off the beaten path is an understatement, it's in the middle of nowhere.

The Swiss shoot rifles and drink wine at the range on weekends. They dont have a problem.Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk 2

 

In many villages in Germany they have a shooting clubs with an indoor range, many are airgun or up to .22 only, some are big bore handgun capable, all have a bar. The Germans drink beer with everthing (well almost) they do, including shooting. These bars do also serve liquor.

The long gone Garfield target range was downstairs from Kulik's bar at Monroe Street and Palisade in Garfield. I guess the Jimmy's name came later. It was a real old time bar until they renovated it.

The long gone Garfield target range was downstairs from Kulik's bar at Monroe Street and Palisade in Garfield. I guess the Jimmy's name came later. It was a real old time bar until they renovated it.

 

Yeah! We loved that place. We only knew it as "Jimmy's" which may not have been the proper name. Man.. Back in the day we used to lock the guns in the trunk of the car and worry about nothing.

I used to be a member at a tiny club in PA that was a range and a bar. Everything was super cheap too....beer was served in 8 oz glasses, but it was only 50 cents. They also had food which was also cheap....on weekends they had all kinds of shoots...for money or for groceries....you would shoot a shotgun out this window at a target ...whomever got a bullseye won....they also had those lottery tickets that you pull the strips off of....the range was right next to it....100 yards, no range officers...you could move the bench to whatever distance you wanted....was always empty except right before deer season when the members would sight in their rifles.....and thje best part...yearly dues...$7....of course it was in the middle of nowhere...but when my mother in law lived just a few miles from it, it was great.

Schuetzen Park has a bar 20' from the range..

 

Did my NRA Basic Pistol there in June.

 

They are in Began.. Just a few miles north of jersey city..

Is that the range in the basement?

They are in Began.. Just a few miles north of jersey city..

I think it is ground floor but it has a low ceiling.... There is a catering hall over it...

This is it.

 

Notice the dirt floor at waist height just in front on the bench and all the garbage on the left side wall... Not exactly a "Premiere Shooting Center"

 

Place looks time frozen in 1975...

 

 

If you take a class with NJ Training you can shoot there for free whenever they are doing a class...

Does anybody remember "Jimmy's" bar in Garfield? We used to go downstairs to the range and shoot for beers.

 

Lock the pistols up and go upstairs to collect winnings.

 

Great ventilation... No wonder I have heavy metals poisoning... Must have been the beer...

 

Garfield?!?!

 

Lucky you didn't get lockjaw........

In many villages in Germany they have a shooting clubs with an indoor range, many are airgun or up to .22 only, some are big bore handgun capable, all have a bar. The Germans drink beer with everthing (well almost) they do, including shooting. These bars do also serve liquor.

 

Haha so true! High speed go-karts and beer! Yep, done that a time or too.

 

I don't see the big deal about this. Sounds like they have a system to keep people from drinking and then shooting, so you aren't going to be worrying about a drunk guy in the stall next to you. So what is the issue? It is like saying because someone owns guns, they can't have alcohol in their home, or else they end up shooting people. Or as was mentioned, states that allow CCing in bars end with bad things all the time. They don't.

 

 

Place looks time frozen in 1975...

 

 

 

 

Are you sure that picture wasn't taken in 1975?

I don't see what the fuss is all about.

 

Almost every gun range club house I've been to in America had a place to get a cold adult beverage after range time.

Well you see, just one sip of that Devil's Nectar and you may be doing all sorts of crazy things! We all know that a grown man cannot handle a couple beers and still be trusted with any sort of thing. Not even watery, low ABV piss beer like Coors Light that most people drink. This is why I am voting for Mitt Romney, Because he only tasted beer once in his life as a wayward youth and has ever since abstained from the devil's nectar!

Does anybody remember "Jimmy's" bar in Garfield? We used to go downstairs to the range and shoot for beers.

 

Lock the pistols up and go upstairs to collect winnings.

 

Great ventilation... No wonder I have heavy metals poisoning... Must have been the beer...

 

Great Place..the owner was an SOT and had 3 M-60's in the vault down in the basement, He was a subcontractor for the E-4 project...which is why there were usually 2-3 pallets of crated linked 7.62 in the hallway. IIRC they finally closed after a couple of College kids offed themselves with rental guns.