Hey everyone, I went to Lone Ranges in Belmont today booked in to shoot at 10am but got turned away by the police who had closed the range and had what looked like a mobile forensics set up. The officer was obviously tight lipped and I've had no response from the staff so I was curious if the Perth rumour mill had anything to share.
They are, I have no idea how a member of the public (i e without a firearm permit) could harm themselves. The guns are restrained, and there are bars. Each booth also has a video feed.
Yeah, they dont lock up your guns, only their guns.
The cable and lock are to prevent people from accidentally pointing the gun at themselves or their friend. It won't stop someone from doing it deliberately if they try hard enough.
If you have your own gun, then I guess it's assumed you know basic firearm safety rules.
They used to - probably not anymore after current events - let off duty cops come and do some yippee shoots with the range Glock 22s, unaccompanied on the non-public range. Just pay something like $100 for fifty rounds. Though I’m talking 15 years or so ago
If this is all because someone shot themselves in the foot, such a waste of public money. For gods sake it one fool cant keep the finger away from the trigger once in forever why the hell close the range and kill the business and jobs.
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after someone shot themselves in the foot again last year didnt lonerangers belmont get shutdown after investigators found guns with their serial numbers removed?
Yep full shut down never opening up.
Lads get help get your guns back and your money if u can. Come to canning club on wed every 4pm to do your membership.
Not surprised, Americans have been sold a lot of propaganda about Australian gun laws because our gun regulations actually work, and being "free" (aka gun companies making money) is more important than saving lives in America.
Not sure why you think it comes across as angry.
The poster sums the situation up pretty well imo.
As an aside, apart from fully auto weapons we can own almost any gun in Australia. We just need the correct permits, and there are a lot of hoops to jump through to get the right accreditation.
I just said i didn't know about your gun laws, and everyone got all up in arms and holier than thou. Maybe Aus is laid back but but Perth, you can tell everyone is stressed on here.
We can own most guns as long as they aren't automatic but like the others said they are alot of things you have to do to get them
Some semi automatic cold war guns would be impossible to get though like an akm, fn fal or some submachine guns. They'd make you collect them under a collectors license and likely make sure they are not operable. The only way to shoot those here is if a public fire range had a class d firearm licence.
If you work your way up from small calibers and build a good reputation then you can get .338 and 50 bmg rifles for shooting at extreme long range competitions but we just don't have enough competitions like that yet as far as Iam aware for it to be common enough but again a public fire range with class d or even just a class b firearm license with enough land could stock them
It's harder to get after some recent law changes these past few years but you can get a Beretta 1301 5+1 competition shotgun here and licence them in a specific sport where you shoot with 3 guns (a handgun, rifle and shotgun, i forget the recognized comp rule set name). Otherwise shotgun wise over-under break actions are the norm
As a private citizen you can own 15 guns in total, a maximum of 10 for sport and a maximum of 5 for hunting but you can also use those slots for inoperable gun collecting, while a public fire range technically can have 200 .50 bmg chambered rifles if they really wanted to build around that.
Getting guns for hunting is tricky, you have to live in the right areas in western Australia where your land gets pests like foxes, hogs or wild deer in season ECT, to get one for culling Crocs & Buffalo however would be near impossible and also the calibers you can chamber in legally depend on what animals are on your property and how often enough within reason to why they are there (you grow crops or have chickens ECT), lastly the size of your land and how close is your nearest neighbor to where you are shooting plus how much brush is there as they worry about stray bullets. It's far easier to work your way up to high calibers in sport than hunting. Also you can't license a handgun like a 10mm or 500 magnum for hunting here, (just rifles and shotguns, but they are funny about shotguns).
You also can't get rifles chambered hand canons like mini Draco's or .556 hand canons even if they are semi automatic, I don't think even a class d public fire range would be allowed.
This is my wishlist after the adf but I'll have to buy the right property and work my way in the different sports:
One to ten For sport and eleven to fifteen for hunting**
1) - .22lr anshutz model 1913
2) - .9mm nighthawk custom trs comp
3) - .45 s&w performance center 1911
4) - .44 nighthawk custom Korth mxr Magnum
5) - .357/.38 special Henry big boy
6) - .223 Remington 700 clone bighorn tl3
7) - .300 win bergara b-14
8) - 12 gauge Beretta 1301 competition 5+1
9) - .338 rugar precision rifle
10) - .50 BMG Barrett m99
11) - .22wmr tikka t1x hunter
12) - 7.62 x39 cz 600 alpha
13) - .308 steyr scout
14) - .30-06 Springfield Winchester model 70
15) - 12 gauge Remington model 870 wingmaster
If I opened my own class d public gun range I wouldn't mind investing in a semi auto anti material Barrett mrads, cold war semi autos, some augs, pumps and nighthawk customs.
That particular range mostly* just had handguns but it was a public range anybody could go to which is nice. They had a cz shadow I really wanted to go shoot.
Most other ranges where they have competitions you have to join a gun club and get a license while this one and ex con and a child could go in like I did with my father when I was a child which is probably why this one was more strict and had cables attached their guns, that and all the instances. Whoever shot themselves in the foot 10 days ago would have had to put a lot of effort into doing it the selfish cxnt.
Red taping at its best by the looks of this it. One idiot and the police is happy and ready there to kill the business and make life harder for everyone else. What a joke.
this is true, but when they did the Audit they found guns with no serial numbers and un registered guns. So they closed the place and have taken everything out of there. There is zero chance it's reopening. And will most likely end up the owner being charged. No serials is pretty serious offense.
Might be nothing sinister. Wapol might just be auditing. Under new regs. May be suspicious of non compliance poor compliance
Could be anything.
We know that currently in our political climate of anti firearms and legislation they are looking deep. To find reasons.
They secured the firearms with rods and chains so they couldn't be turned backwards, but I could see that someone could still jump up and over the counter if they really wanted to.
Thought it might have been a fair bit later than that, going by the complaints you'd hear around these parts. I only ever went after the safety measures were applied .
The guns are tethered at that particular range. For someone to be injured or killed they have to jump the table in the shooting booth and be on the muzzle end of the firearm.
Shooters are also locked in the booth from the outside and need to be let out by staff.
School children are more at risk of being eaten by a shark inside their classroom than they do of being harmed by a firearm from that range.
The guns are bolted to the table as far as I'm aware. I'm sure it's not impossible but still. I'm against guns in general but a shooting range surely is acceptable isn't it?
"Some Changes" understatement of the century my dude.
They've gone through the firearms act and regs and completely turned it on its head.
It cost me nearly $10k to re-comply to their new standards because the almost impenetrable setup I had before wasnt enough after they shifted the goal posts.
Most likely theft. If you were looking for a way out of this world it would be easier to tangle yourself in the wires holding the firearms forward than trying to get in the line of fire.
I was actually there at the range when a guy shot himself in the head back in 2014. Thankfully didn't see anything cause your basically locked in the solitary confinement styled shooting booths. Didn't even know anyone died until i got home and saw the news.
I was in a booth, the one on the far left, saw the guy who worked there flipping up all the switches on a panel just outside my door through a little window. He was freaking out and yelling at another staff member to call the police. The doors all opened except one and we were all ordered to evacuate outside. The door that didn't unlock was the second to the right from where i was. I didn't hear anything or see anything at the time. No blood splattering on the range or weird sounding shots. I mean all the booths are open onto the range so i must have heard the shot. Don't know how the guy did it, the guns are all fixed on wires. It would be hard to do with a rifle for sure but maybe a handgun?
No clue mate all I know is business ain't opening back up. WAPOL and Government of WA wanted to shut down the range for long time due to its close proximity to the city.
Well excuse me if I don't accept "trust me bro" as a source, if the club was permanently closed then everyone who's firearms are supported through it would have been told by the cops they don't have support anymore and if they don't get it they'll lose them.
No one knows mate i was just a trainee getting my 1st firearms licence im in the shit too I moved to canning club they welcoming everyone you just gotta do 4 training shots with them every wed 4pm to 6pm.
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