Comments on: NRA means “No rentals available.”

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:03:15 +0000

Neil, I think the person who wrote the article really is a girl guessing by their name….Meredith MacKenzie.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:53:38 +0000

Why don’t you man up. I have been to their range, its not a gun store it’s a range. Those ranges that offer rentals are usually owned by those who also have a store giving you a chance to shoot their product they sale before you buy. Gun Clubs and Private ranges don’t offer rentals. If you were a real man you would have had your own firearm with you for your sister to use when you visited the range.

I have been to that range, went through the same process to get my blue range membership card. You misrepresent their procedure. You do not pay until you are done shooting, there is no evaluation process other than a simple going over range rules at the front desk. You do have to take a range safety/evaluation test (One Page). If that took her 30 minutes she has no basic safety knowledge to begin with and should begin with a Certified NRA Basic Pistol instructor instead of range where she wants to shoot immediately.

Again Man up and quit whining like a girl.

By: Santee

Santee — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:03:11 +0000

Ms. Mackenzie, your terminology needs some updating. ‘Packing heat’ was last heard in the 50s, along with terms such as, ‘packing a heater’, ‘packing a roscoe’, strapped, and many others. These terms were usually used in movies and not in common usage even then. today’s concealed carry holders do not speak like that because they do not think that way.

These terms are used by those journalists who seek to denigrate those individuals that exercise their right to self defense by carrying a firearm. More appropriate terms which are used by today’s citizens are ‘concealed carry’, ‘carrying a firearm’, ‘open carry’, or ‘carrying a pistol or gun’. The other terms may sound flashy and dangerous to journalists but are not used by the common CCW holders.