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This is what, the 3rd one in the past few months at FL gun ranges?
1 posted on 06/24/2009 9:09:33 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

I guess gun rental = “suicide booth”.


2 posted on 06/24/2009 9:12:49 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: Red in Blue PA

hey we are good down here....lol....

how about the rash of home invasion shootins also this past week or so....

crime is definatly up in florida areas these past few monthes...


4 posted on 06/24/2009 9:15:31 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: Red in Blue PA

We have really got to close the “Shooting Range Loophole.”

Yo Lautenberg, please pick up the white phone.....


5 posted on 06/24/2009 9:16:09 AM PDT by umgud (Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Well, I guess if you’re going to off yourself it makes sense to just rent the gun instead of paying full price to buy one.


6 posted on 06/24/2009 9:19:23 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Red in Blue PA

Man, that guy really, really missed the target.

Hope he wore ear protection.


7 posted on 06/24/2009 9:19:45 AM PDT by Ole Okie (Simply an American)
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To: Red in Blue PA
He fired several hundred rounds and waited for other patrons to leave before shooting himself.

At least he took range safety seriously.

He fired practice rounds to make sure he did not miss his target when it counted.

He waited until there were no other shooters down range before firing at his target.

8 posted on 06/24/2009 9:19:48 AM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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9 posted on 06/24/2009 9:21:26 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is sad, but it does happen now and then.

At a public range in Torrance Ca a while back there was a guy who rented a .357 and bought 50 rounds. He put 49 downrange, then...

I was next to him and had just packed up and left when he used #50.

I don’t see a way to stop this, any more than a guy renting an Avis car and heading for a bridge abutment can be stopped.


10 posted on 06/24/2009 9:22:35 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Red in Blue PA

To the idiots that want to kill themselves. Do it at home and not at the ranges.


11 posted on 06/24/2009 9:25:11 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is an illegal alien)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Fourth shooting, 5 victims - that I know of.

Orlando had three shootings, one being the mom shooting her son then killing herself, so four victims? total.

Now this one in Delray Beach is fourth shooting, 5th person dead.


12 posted on 06/24/2009 9:30:22 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Gasoline has gone up 60% since the Osama inauguration.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Lets hope the gun was undamaged.


13 posted on 06/24/2009 9:46:59 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Red in Blue PA

A lot of ranges are starting rules against single shooters who rent pistols.

Of course, you may bring your psycho mom with you, like that one guy.


14 posted on 06/24/2009 9:59:28 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Red in Blue PA

I hate to admit it- but it’s time to outlaw rentals.


15 posted on 06/24/2009 10:01:24 AM PDT by WackySam (The fact that there are 24 hours in a day, and 24 beers in a case, is not a coincidence.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Suicide by Target Practice...


17 posted on 06/24/2009 10:05:02 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Happened here in Illinois a few months ago. Most ranges around here won’t let a guy rent a gun unless he’s got somebody with him. Don’t know how effective that is but it might prevent some nuts from doing it.


18 posted on 06/24/2009 10:06:29 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Suicide by faking a firearm accident so the life insurance will payout?


19 posted on 06/24/2009 10:09:37 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is why it is best to belong to a private sportsmens club. These things always happen at public ranges.


20 posted on 06/24/2009 10:55:57 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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I see no reason to restrict any firearm rentals because of the occasional suicide. It happens now and again but compared to how many rentals occur per day/week/month, etc. it’s an exceedingly rare occurance. There is no reason to restrict the activities of everyone because some mentally disturbed person is going to grease himself. If he doesn’t do it with a rental gun he’ll jump out a window, or run his car into a tree, take sleeping pills, etc.

Several years ago I went to a range in Manchester, NH in the morning and later that day a guy shot himself. It was kind of weird but I’m glad I didn’t decide to go in the afternoon.


29 posted on 06/24/2009 6:03:58 PM PDT by Dayman (My 1919a4 is named Charlotte. When I light her up she has the voice of an angel.)
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