Family-friendly gun range offering birthday parties for kids

[shadowrider]

LEWISVILLE -- Instead of a groundbreaking Friday afternoon, David Prince had a block-breaking.

He and his investors used hammers to crush concrete blocks, similar to what he'll install along the walls of a building inside a Lewisville industrial park. Prince is building what he is proud to call "one of the highest quality state-of-the-art air-conditioned gun ranges in Texas."

There are still office cubicles inside the 17,000 square foot facility, but he's about to transform it all into a 24-lane indoor firing-range aimed at experts and novices.

Real novices.

Eagle Gun Range will host birthday parties for kids.

"One of the reasons we're doing this is, when I had my boys, I didn't have a place to take them and educate them about how to handle a gun safely," Prince explained. "I really want families to be able to take their kids here and teach their young shooters how to shoot safely."

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Family-friendly-gun-range-offering-birthday-parties-for-kids-156497115.html

These kids will have adult supervision and will learn how to handle, shoot and RESPECT guns.

[gejohnston]

1. you missed it

This one was, I guess, was looking at it from the dark side's prospective. I still like the idea.

www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1172&mark=1

[rfranklin]

2. Just put away the guns before the fight over the cake starts...

could get messy otherwise.

[brewens]

3. Cool! A pinata they can blow apart with automatic weapons? Imagine

the fun! It could even be an endangered species!

[gejohnston]

5. naww that would be too expensive

and too big of a legal hassle. The thing with some machine guns, it is hard to hit something unless you are really good or really close. Even harder if you are eight.

[SGMRTDARMY]

10. Cool

Another facttose intolerant comment. Whatever would we do without those comments.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

12. Yea, can't teach those kid gun safety.

I shot my first deer with my father and my uncle when I was 10. We ate it. There were no I-hate-gun-owners around.

[SGMRTDARMY]

13. My kids learned about gun safety by the time they were 5yo

and started shooting by 8yo. They don't fear guns, they respect them.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

21. It's good that they did so.

I was raised in South Dakota where prairie-dog holes are a risk to the cattle and horses. At age 3, I was able to ride my own horse (a gentle one) without any adult assistance except to get up in the saddle. It was not unusual for parents to give their kids sling-shots. In grammer school, some kids got bb guns. Others, like myself, were given .22's. We shot a lot of prairie-dogs.

None of us knew that to be a liberal, in some persons' minds, you also had to be opposed to gun ownership. It was a lesson that we were never taught. For those who are opposed to gun ownership and have never learned gun safety, I agree with them that they should not own any firearms. They might accidentally hurt themselves or someone else.

[BiggJawn]

22. +1

[ileus]

4. Finally a BD party I want to take the kids to.

[Hangingon]

6. Kids enjoy shooting

My gransons - 19, 17, 15 and 15 - were here a week ago. We played a lot of golf and then one morning they wanted to shoot. We spent an enjoyable day at the range. They know range rules and etiquette and followed them. It was a fun, safe and very competitive days. It cost about 4,000 rounds of ammunition.

[petronius]

7. I like the way Mr. Prince thinks, both his reasons for doing it and

his safety/education consciousness. Hope it's a successful business...

[bowens43]

8. We are a sick sick nation

Disgusting

[SGMRTDARMY]

9. Why? nt.

Or is this another one of your hit and run post that your known for?

[gejohnston]

11. then don't go to Switzerland and Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%BCtzenfest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover_Sch%C3%BCtzenfest

Or Canada for that matter. As soon as they turn 12, they can buy their own ammunition.

If you go by the poll showing US gun ownership dropping, we are third or fourth behind Norway, Canada, and Finland. If you go by Gallop, we are either first or second behind Finland in gun ownership.

Of course you can go to Australia, where posting in a picture with a gun will get you in trouble with their Olympic committee.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/06/robert-farago/non-gun-tweet-of-the-day-aussie-olympic-swimmers-face-facebook-ban/#comments

Just don't expect the have the same freedom of speech that we have either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#Australia

Oh yeah, then there is censorship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia

[ileus]

15. A truly sick nation wouldn't allow kids to be introduced to such a great sport.

[friendly_iconoclast]

26. Why do I get the feeling you have framed photos of these two guys in your house?

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. "Now Jimmy, it's your turn to stand at the other end"

Par-teeeeeee.

[SGMRTDARMY]

16. Do you actually have anything intelligent

to add here? If you dislike guns so much, why do you come here?

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. Is this a survey?

...or are you just being nosy?

[PavePusher]

25. Is this a discussion group....

or did you just come here to be an ass?

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. 1. On occasion, and 2.

If I did, I'd fit right in.

[gejohnston]

18. did your boat run out of gas or

or just have the trolling motor on?

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Oh great.

Now the Navy wants in on the action.............

[gejohnston]

20. I don't know about that

I fish from shore or on a kayak.

[BiggJawn]

23. Sounds like more fun than Chuckee Cheez. n/t

[era veteran]

24. Shooting since I was 6 years old.

Great idea, gun safety needs to be taught and it is just not as easy to shoot in the countryside as it was back then.
I never feared guns and always respected the safety rules drummed in my head.
No one in any Army unit I was in could outshoot me with one exception and that was a SSG TDY on Army pistol team. When he was around at tank gunnery we would get pointers off him.
A gentleman should know how to safely handle weapons.
We do have the CMP, Civilian Marksmanship Program which teaches young people to shoot.

The CMP Mission
To Promote Firearm Safety and Marksmanship Training With an Emphasis on Youth

Our Vision
That Every Youth in America Has the Opportunity to Participate in Firearm Safety and Marksmanship Programs
http://www.odcmp.com/