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| - As an avid shooter, I rate all of the ranges I go to according to the following criteria: selection, safety, price, and atmosphere.
Selection: The Gun Store has a ton of fully automatic weapons as well as some specialty rifles for rent. I don't know if they have any pistols or "regular" guns, but I didn't go there to shoot those, so who cares? Five out of five!
Safety: The staff here are positively paranoid about gun safety and will enforce the rules to the point of making you extremely uncomfortable. An employee is with you at all times and handles the loading, jam-clearing, etc. of the gun you have rented. Five out of five here.
Price: The Gun Store requires that you buy their ammo when using their guns. Fair is fair. The price, however, runs from $.75 per round to over a dollar depending on what you are shooting! That is a premium that is just too high and they lose points there. One out of five.
Atmosphere: I understand: you guys deal with a lot of tourists and many of them are knuckleheads and yahoos who learned everything they know about guns from the movies. I sympathize. But you are in the service industry and belittling your customers or being hostile to them for completely understandable reactions is unacceptable. I had a Thompson jam and when I did not immediately hand it over, it was pulled from my hands and the jerk in the store uniform asked me, "Do you handle machine guns for a living? Well I do, so hand it here." No, you don't handle machine guns for a living - you serve customers and you're failing at that right now. Zero out of five.
Overall, The Gun Store is a mediocre experience and a fairly high-priced one at that. Two out of five stars.
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