10-21-2015, 05:44 AM
Seeing several rounds from concealed carriers impact his face will help him with any further decision making processes. There's a certain fear of the unknown. Where I live, everybody that has half a brain cell left figures that most people around here are armed, many heavily armed. We're polite, will go out of our way to take care of you if in need, but you might want to pick another State if crime is your way of making a living.
You can carry concealed in schools in Utah, and many trainers offer free courses for teachers and school employees. The State Legislature is comprised of 85% Utah CFP holders, and one of the State senators, an older Marine veteran, has trained most of them.
I would emphasize safety again when dealing with firearms. I witnessed countless safety violations with some other patrons of a range where we were conducting training last weekend, and a 10yr-old boy was needlessly killed the weekend before that out hunting with his family when one of his hunting companions was removing a rifle from an ATV, and fired the rifle, striking the boy and killing him.
ALWAYS keep a firearms pointed in a SAFE DIRECTION.
ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
ALWAYS keep a gun unloaded until ready to use.
Be Aware of your backstop, target, what's around it, and the ballistic potential of your cartridge/firearm system.
After watching some guys flag each other to the back of the head, lower back, and general cavalier handling of handguns at the range, we encountered a family who were not wearing any eye protection in the Cowboy town, to include an unattended 3yr-old boy. They were blasting away at the large steel targets in the bays, some of which are only 7yds away, and one boy was hit in the face with a ricochet within .5 seconds of me telling them they needed eye pro.
"Oh, he'll be fine." Plink, "Ahhhhhhhh!"
I was flagged to the face and chest immediately after that by one of the kids holding a loaded rifle as I attempted to equip the family with all of my extra eye pro.
Later on, they asked us to stop shooting, because....
"We're missing a kid!"
The little 3yr-old had wandered off, and could not be located. After a frantic search, he was found inside one of the shooting bays alone, sitting on top of the mock-up horse with saddle. They then moved on to the restricted LE range and shot out one of the windows. You can't make this stuff up, and I have several witnesses, one of whom is a forum member. It was madness.
What does this have to do with open or concealed carry? If you haven't received an NRA course on firearms safety, I strongly advise that you do so. They are substantially different than the substandard safety training we received in the military, with priorities on what order you ALWAYS do certain things, started with safe direction. Most courses have taught to ensure a gun is unloaded, which often leads to some moron determining that condition by pulling the trigger, and people that aren't gun educated don't know exactly what unloaded means, or how to determine it.
You can carry concealed in schools in Utah, and many trainers offer free courses for teachers and school employees. The State Legislature is comprised of 85% Utah CFP holders, and one of the State senators, an older Marine veteran, has trained most of them.
I would emphasize safety again when dealing with firearms. I witnessed countless safety violations with some other patrons of a range where we were conducting training last weekend, and a 10yr-old boy was needlessly killed the weekend before that out hunting with his family when one of his hunting companions was removing a rifle from an ATV, and fired the rifle, striking the boy and killing him.
ALWAYS keep a firearms pointed in a SAFE DIRECTION.
ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
ALWAYS keep a gun unloaded until ready to use.
Be Aware of your backstop, target, what's around it, and the ballistic potential of your cartridge/firearm system.
After watching some guys flag each other to the back of the head, lower back, and general cavalier handling of handguns at the range, we encountered a family who were not wearing any eye protection in the Cowboy town, to include an unattended 3yr-old boy. They were blasting away at the large steel targets in the bays, some of which are only 7yds away, and one boy was hit in the face with a ricochet within .5 seconds of me telling them they needed eye pro.
"Oh, he'll be fine." Plink, "Ahhhhhhhh!"
I was flagged to the face and chest immediately after that by one of the kids holding a loaded rifle as I attempted to equip the family with all of my extra eye pro.
Later on, they asked us to stop shooting, because....
"We're missing a kid!"
The little 3yr-old had wandered off, and could not be located. After a frantic search, he was found inside one of the shooting bays alone, sitting on top of the mock-up horse with saddle. They then moved on to the restricted LE range and shot out one of the windows. You can't make this stuff up, and I have several witnesses, one of whom is a forum member. It was madness.
What does this have to do with open or concealed carry? If you haven't received an NRA course on firearms safety, I strongly advise that you do so. They are substantially different than the substandard safety training we received in the military, with priorities on what order you ALWAYS do certain things, started with safe direction. Most courses have taught to ensure a gun is unloaded, which often leads to some moron determining that condition by pulling the trigger, and people that aren't gun educated don't know exactly what unloaded means, or how to determine it.
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CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
www.AR15buildbox.com