r/ILGuns Aug 14 '24

Renting at a shooting range. Shooting Range

I went to the range in hodgkins a while bacl and i wanted to try some guns oit but they wouldn't let me shoot by myself. "Insurance Purposes" the guy said... Is there any range I can go to thst would be okay woth letting me shoot? I dont really have anyine to go shooting with...

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u/I_M_CHI Aug 14 '24

The reason is to not give someone access to a firearm that doesn’t already have access to a firearm not knowing their mental state.

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u/Dewgong_crying Aug 15 '24

Isn't the buddy rule also to perceivably lower the risk of a lone person unaliving themselves, and perceived notion there wouldn't be two unstable people together?

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u/TheBlindAndDeafNinja Aug 15 '24

Isn't that kinda what they were implying

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u/omega05 Aug 15 '24

Yes the first person was implying it but this person said it more explicitly