I noticed that, too
jaughtman said:
My range requires open actions, but they don't inspect my range bag.
Yeah, that especially rankled me - this is a new range and the other two I normally shoot at don't do that....this might have been my first and only visit to this range.
I notice that too. But I have recently been subjected to commercial air travel and the TSA, so have a higher tolerance, I guess.
I would offer to let them observe
me inspect
my range bag. But that is as far as it would go.
Warning: Hyperbole ahead. Do they want to give me a pat-down, too? or cavity search?
I was recently prescribed a medical device. The airlines, by law, must let me carry it as hand-carried baggage and NOT count it against the bag limit. Also, while the TSA has the
authority to inspect it, I have the
right to require them to put on a fresh pair of gloves before they do. (This information from the device provider, I have not researched the law myself, yet.)
If it is a privately owned range, I have to obey their rules on their property, but I do not have to give them my patronage. If it is a membership club range, I, as a member can attempt to influence the executive board, committee or whoever makes the rules.
It would behoove me to make my rhetoric shorter and take my case to the rules-makers and get them to see the logic (or the reason, or at least the practicality).
Lost Sheep