How do I open my own gun range?
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First have a lot of money, second have a ton of patience, and third have the right spot &#92; location.  After all those are in check you can start the process at your local government offices...get ready for a rude welcoming...
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http://www.gunshows-usa.com/\nhttp://www.gunbroker.com/\nhttp://www.auctionarms.com/\n\nhttp://firearmnews.com/directory/index.asp?CatID=32\n\nThse sources are good places to start. Local estate auctions are preety good as well.
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There are no free sample business plans for a shooting range.\n\nThe National Association of Shooting Ranges, of The National Shooting Sports Foundation, has a shooting range business plan, but it is sold for $15 for non members and $7.50 for members. I think this is a very reasonable price. The business plan is described as \n\nHOW TO WRITE A SHOOTING RANGE BUSINESS PLAN\nBusiness plans are an important management tool for all shootingranges, not just ranges looking to secure financing. Focuses on each ofthe four parts that make up the successful business plan: business description, marketing plan, management plan and financial plan. Asks questions,offers tips and provides worksheets to help the reader organize thoughts\nhttp://www.rangeinfo.org/PDF/catalog.pdf  \n\nThe National Rifle Association has a NRA Range Development & Operations Conference, which is designed to help you develop your business plan and range. The price is steep at $395, but it covers various topics that I think you are a prospective owner of a shooting range should learn, including your master plan, your business plan, construction materials, concern on lead, cost analysis, maintenance, environmental concerns, etc.  You can find information on the conference here http://www.nrahq.org/shootingrange/rangedev.asp\n\nIf you are looking for general resources on business plans, here are some resources:\n\n- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html\n\nYou may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like (not shooting ranges, but sample plans to give you a feel on how to make one):\n\n- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners\nhttp://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html\n- VFinance - View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&ToolPage=bps_main.asp\n- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_m.asp\n- PlanWare Planning software and information. http://www.planware.org/\n- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html \n-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/businessPlan.pdf\n- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_FE/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid\n- Business Plans Index - A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/bplansindex.html\n-\nSome recommended books are :\n\n- Business Plans Kit for Dummies \n- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan \n- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide \n- Business Plans For Dummies® \n- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan \n\nHope that the above resources help
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Deprime it 1st, keep muzzle AWAY from your body and other people at all times, go to your local gun shop and get one of those bullet corkscrews that goes on the end of your cleaning rod, screw it down into the bullet and pull it out, remove the other bullet as well since you're obviously not at the rifle range.
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Well, you take your Mac down to the local rifle range and set it up on a post down range and then shot the hell out of that toy box piece of crap.\nIt doesn't really solve your problem, but man is it FUN!
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ONE QUESTION CAN I BRING MY OWN GUN IF SO I AM IN
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Head to your local County Clerk's Office for a pistol permit.  You'll have to fill it out, get fingerprinted and wait.  And wait.
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You can enter a gun store at any age.  My Dad collects old riffles and I remember going to a gun store with him as a child.  The legal age to buy a gun is 21.  You can legally fire someone else's gun, though.  My Dad took me to a shooting range a few times.  I didn't mind the shooting, but the loading of the bullets hurt my hands.  I pretty much hated going there. :)
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first of all i recommend you get your own gear.  the gun for everything you Will ever want to do in paintball is the tippmann 98 custom.  for around 500 dollars you can turn it into a machine gun.  next you need to get barrel for it and depending on your style of play you could get the flatline barrel which adds an extra 100 feet of accuracy.\n\nnext there are many games you can play withyour new stuff.  you can play capture the flag , elimination, capture the fort, or timed games.  pretty much whatever game you want to play you can do in paintball\n\nfinally there are only a few rules since youre not ggoing to a field  do not shoot anyone within 6 feet, alwasy ask for surrender within twenty feet ( you can shoot them if they say no), never use frozen paintballs or marbles because they can and will send people to the hospital  thats really everything you need to know but heres a few sites that might help
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it depends on which state you live in. i live in alabama, where you have to be at least 18 to own a shotgun/rifle. 21 to own a pistol. what i did when i bought my sig sauer p239 is i had to fill out a form that is faxed to the a.t.f. it was a background check. once that is cleared, then i had do 2 things. i had to go to the courthouse, and actually get my concealed carry permit, which for me cost $20, then i had to register the pistol with my local police dept. the best piece of advice i can give you about this, is to read up on your local firearm laws, they will explain everything that you have to go through, in order to obtain a permit
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Welcome to the world of target shooting. \n\nA couple of things..\n \nFirst - enroll in a handgun class offered by a multitude of instructors. If none are local you may wish to find one out of area. This will give you the basics of handgun operation.\n\nSecond - decide what extent you wish to obtain. Set goals and pursue them.\n\nThird - Now that you're familiar with equipment go buy the best you can afford.  Don't be afraid to buy used..some great deals out there for beginners.\n\nVideos are nice. Books aren't much for experience but offer good tips on equipment. The hands on instructor is inexpensive (usually 50 bucks an hour) and has guns you can use for the course.\n\nSome nice entry level accurate guns:\nRuger Mark II Competition Slabside - 22Lr - about $300 used\nSmith and Wesson model 19 - 38spl - about $150 used\nSpringfield mil spec - 45acp - $400 new\n\nGood luck and congratulations on choosing a great hobby.\nPS. wanna try something really fun? go to a search engine and type in Cowboy Action Shooting. You might get hooked...Pard.
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Check your states laws first!  Consignment though a gunstore is the easiest but you may not get as much for it.  Some newspapers will not let you advertise firearms for sale.  Ebay will not let you sell your gun online, only parts.  There are online sites that do deal with gun auctions.  You'll have to do a search for them.  Try posting an ad at a local shooting range.  Most ranges have bulletin boards that you can list your gun on.  In some states you must complete a "private party transfer" through a Federal Firearms Dealer when selling to an individual.
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You can talk to your local police precinct/sheriff's department, ATF office, NRA branch, or reputable gun shop - any one of them will be able to help you.
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RPGs your allowed to own legally, and if your licensed to, you can legally own plastic grenades, (much waiting involved with the feds on waiting lists.) anything that’s considered a weapon, and can be considered "fully automatic" unless its a car, its illegal in any case.  unless your a secret squirrel for the government, they're going to have a pretty big problem with finding out you even want one.  (but, I don’t really plan on contacting anyone about this question, or any question I read on here, so duh.)  \n\nsilencers innately affect the accuracy of a gun, so a silencer on anything, especially something with a short barrel like that of a pistol, is going to severely affect the accuracy.  you will not find an accurate pistol like the one you speak of, the barrel is just too short to make any bullet accurate.  but if you try your local pawn shop, you'll be sure to find a good ol' regular one.  you can pick up a 50 cal from your local army surplus, however, it will be missing some key components that are pretty hard to reproduce. if anyone does find out that you somehow managed to arm this kind of weapon, they would raid your house just to confiscate it.   \n\nhonestly, I know somebody like you.  he owns like 20 guns.  (none of which are capable of blowing a hole in anything any smaller than a foot wide) even a German pistol from world war 2 with a Nazi sign on it. (its pretty old, but it is a piece of history)  except for he doesn’t have the balls to pull the trigger when he needs to.  its pretty sad.
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There is no \nAge Restrictions on a shotgun certificate. 15 is the minumin age for a firearms certificate \n \nUNDER 14 YEARS OLD \n\nCAN\n Hold a shotgun certificate.\n \nCANNOT\n Hold a firearm certificate.\n \nCANNOT\n(Even if the holder of a relevant certificate)\n Purchase or hire shotguns until 17 years old OR\n\nReceive a gift of a shotgun until 15 years old.\n \n \nUNDER 15 YEARS OLD \n \nCAN\n Hold a shotgun certificate AND\n\nHold a firearm certificate.\n \nCAN\n(If authorised by the relevant certificate)\n Receive a gift of a Section 1 firearm from the age of 14 years old.\n \nCANNOT\n(Even if the holder of a relevant certificate)\n Purchase or hire a shotgun until 17 years old.\n\nPurchase or hire a firearm until 17 years old.\n\nReceive a gift of a shotgun until 15 years old.\n\nPossess an assembled shotgun unless:\n\nsupervised by a person over 21 years old, (preferably a shotgun certificate holder), OR \nthe gun is so covered with a securely fastened gun-cover that it cannot be fired. \n \n \nUNDER 17 YEARS OLD \n \nCAN\n Hold a shotgun certificate AND\n\nHold a firearm certificate.\n \nCAN\n(If authorised by the relevant certificate)\n Receive a gift of a shotgun from the age of 15 years.\n\nReceive a gift of a firearm from the age of 14 years.\n\nPossess a shotgun if covered and secured from the age of 15 years.\n \nCANNOT\n(Even if the holder of a relevant certificate)\n Purchase or hire shotguns until 17 years old.\n\nPurchase or hire firearms until 17 years old.\n\nAt the age of 15 you may apply for a coterminous" shotgun certificate wich basicaly is a shotgun and firearms certificat that both expier at the same time (5 year grant) Becaus there both prossesd at the same time it works out cheaper than it would individualy  --- shotgun cert £50 firearms £50.  coterminous cert £60.  If you are thinking of taking up shooting, then i advise you to start your home work, finding out the laws, the guns, affective killing ranges of guns etc, your quarry (game) and everything that will help you to get you certificats.\nThere is alot of rigma to go through to apply for your certificat, and ounce done you will recive a visit from your local firearms officer.  I see othere people are going on about checks etc but since your question was what is the age for----------------------------\nIf you need any help or advice and more info on other things, or a bit coaching then please e mail me (by going into my profile)\nWith shooting as my hobbie i keep on top of the laws, what iv wrote is the law, nothing different
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I just checked out the Daisy website and it looks like your sight might not fit the gun without something in between them, BUT BEFORE STARTING MAKE SURE THERE ISN'T A CO2 CARTRIDGE IN THE GUN  AND THERE ARE NO BB'S OR PELLETS IN THE GUN AS WELL.  ASK A PARENT OR OTHER ADULT TO CHECK AND MAKE SURE THE GUN IS SAFE TO HANDLE AND WORK ON!! ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN ADULTS PERMISSION TO DO ANYTHING THAT I MENTION IN THIS ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION AND GET HELP WITH ANY OR ALL OF THIS YOUR PARENTS DECIDE.\n\nTo figure this out check the top of the pistol on the flat part between the sights (top of the "slide") and see if it's got an angled groove on each side about 1/8" from top to bottom. It would kinda look like an angle cut into the slide from near the rear sight tword the front with the deep part of the angle  at the bottom of the cut.   The bottom of the sight rails would fit into these grooves. If they are there great all you have to do is loosen the screws on the scope rail till the legs are far enough apart to fit over the slide and into the grooves. Then you tighten up the screws firmly, but not too tight and follow the instructions to zero the sight that came with it.\n\nIf the grooves arn't in the slide then to mount the scope you will have to put a "tip off rail" on top of the slide. They are around $4-$10 depending on the brand and can be found at any gunshop or even Wal-Mart. It might be too much of a hassle or cost too much, but heres how. Just make sure make sure the tipoff rail is the right width for the rails on the scope before you start anything.\n\nThe only two ways to mount the rail and have the sight be acurate it to either screw or epoxy it to the slide top. To use screws you'd have to drill and tap the slide-lots of work and you need the right tools.  Useing epoxy would be cheap easy and look professional if your careful. The only drawback might be you can't use the regular sights if the rail sticks up too far and gets in the way.  To mount the rail with epoxy just cut the rail about 1/8" longer than the rails on the sight you bought.  Screww the scope to the cut rail and set it on top of the slide to make sure it fits and isn't in the way of anthing you don't want it to be. Then mark where you want the ends of the rail to be lightly with a pencil or something. Take the scope off the rail and set the rail back down anline it up again with the marks you made. Use some masking tape and after you line it up front to back and side to side tape it down so it is'nt going to move. Mark the slide top lightly and gently around the rail and then take the rail and tape off. now all thats left is to lightly sand the bottom of the rail (that sits on slide) to remove paint (glue dosn't stick to paint well.) You'll need to take some paint off of the top of the slide inside the marks you made. Don't worry about getting close to the edges by the marks a 1/4" wide down th middle is fine. get some more masking tape ready and mix up a small amount of epoxy. The "instant" 5 minute epoxy works very well for this. make sure everythings readyyou have to work quickly once the glue is mixed.  Spread a thin layer on the slide where the paint is gone and a very little bit on the rail, but only where it will touch the glueon the slide. Just set the rail on the slide, line it up and tape it down.set the gun up so the slide top isn't tipped or the rail might move. Don't move the gun or the tape until the glue directions say the epoxy has cured fully.  When the glue is cured, take off the tape, screw on the scope and follow the  directins that came whith the scope to align it. your all set.  make sure to follow all of the saftey instructions and warning that came with your daisy pistol.  If y ou lost them Daisy can send you a copy, just got to their website and ask.  \n\nI'm not sure of your age, but MAKE SURE your PARENTS are ok with you
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How about at a shooting range?