Do you let others shoot your guns at the range?

I often do. Sometimes though after observing people acting like morons I just pack up and leave in disgust. None the less I'm happy to see people at the range enjoying their 2a rights. And whoever characterized it as Fellowship earlier in this thread hit the nail on the head.
 
Depends on what range and what gun. If it's at a private, members only range, then sure. And, only guns of mine that are well used. Nothing fancy.
 
Sometimes, and only at my private range.

I was shooting my 7mm Magnum one day from the bench. Was taking a break and a fellow member came over and asked if I wanted to shoot his Barret 50. I said sure! He showed me how to handle the gun. Put a few shots downrange, pretty easy on the body laying prone. I asked him if he wanted to shoot the 7mm, he said NO WAY! He didn't want to punish his shoulder! :)
 
I had a young guy next to me with a new hand gun and was missing low left. He asked me to shoot his gun to see if something was wrong whit his gun. I put 3 shoots in the center at 7 yards. I reloaded his gun with my ammo and a couple of snap caps. Showed him he was flinching and I told him how to breath and let the gun surprise him when it goes bang. He did much better after that and I let him keep the snap caps. Total stranger. I'm glad he didn't ask to shoot my gun I would have said "NO"
 
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You're at the range with a gun the person next to you is admiring. He strikes up a conversation. He asks if he can shoot it?

What do you tell him / her?

Do you have a criteria?
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If I'm with a group then no. If i'm shooting alone and have had time to observe others around me then maybe. If they sound like an idiot when it comes to guns when they speak to me then no.
 
try my guns, please

Fellow gun club members are the usual people I allow to use as long as I know them and their safe gun-handling methods.

Anyone know what if any, liability issues could arise if an injury occurs due to use of your gun by some one you allowed to use your gun.
 
I mentioned before that I usually would let someone shoot my guns (with MY ammunition-never theirs because I have no idea what their ammunition REALLY is).

I should qualify this a little bit though. It would be at a commercial indoor range I frequent and I would NOT do it if I had seen them acting like idiots, but that would probably have been noticed by the management before I noticed it. Also I should mention that any gun I have at the range is a shooter and has no collector value and is not at all rare.

I've often seen new shooters with a 9mm auto who have been very appreciative when I let them shoot my .22 (Ruger Mark II Target with a red dot sight---it's heavy and I think that helps with accuracy) or a .357 magnum revolver (a medium frame 4 inch barrel with Pachmayr grips...they are usually surprised a how tame it is). Again, nothing special but since they haven't done much shooting it's a treat for them and a cheap way for me to be a nice guy for a change.
 
One way of not allowing others at the range to fire your guns, is keep to yourself and dont try to socialize, then they wont ask, the more you talk the more likely they will want to shoot your guns, sometimes they keep talking and talking wasting your time, talking about gun laws , politics, personal problems, etc

I try to stay away from the chatter box range rat types, they spend too much time talking instead of shooting.

the last time I was at the range a guy walks from the far end of the range to see what Im shooting asking a bunch of questions then he puts his dirty hands on my rifle without my permission touching the sights with dusty hands from picking brass off the ground and leaves dirty hand prints on my rifle.
 
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