Today I had an experience today at a local range (Nice Shot, Redding, CA)
I was shooting in lane 5 and there are 2 other lanes bieng used. Lane 1 is having some sort of problem, and there are two guys sharing that lane. Anyway there is some problem going on, did not know what at that point, soon one of the range manegers comes in and I hear him tell the shooter "the reason your gun is not working is you loaded the magazine backwards, the bullets face forward twords the opening".
I finished my rounds and left but the more I thought about it the more it freaked me out. If the guys did not know how to load a magazine they probably did not know how to use the gun or saftey. In other words who knows where they were pointing the #### muzzle, in my direction possibly?
I also remembered that I take my kids there to shoot (last time, never again).
End result I called the manager and voiced my concerns, he was full of #####, he said there was no problem, his instructor went in and solved the problem, I replied that he may have explained how to load, not handgun saftey. He said they have no way of regulating, they ask if people know how to use the gun but that was all they could do.
For me that is the last time my kids will use that range and I am still not sure about myself.
Someone who does not know how a gun functions has no buisness handeling a gun, it is a accident waiting to happen.
by the way, the dorks were using a range gun, a 1911..........