• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I’m not a big gun head so i might be wrong. But part of the ammo restrictions might be due to a combo of liabilty issues without regulation being placed on the buildings or zoning.

    The indoor ranges are probably super cheaply constructed like literally every building in Texas. Instead of spending money making a range that you could fire whatever anmo you want, they cut corners and pass on the restriction to the consoooomers - exactly the kind of libertarian bullshit they should love. Like all libertarian bullshit, it helps the owners not consumers.

    Libertarians always assume the market will demand what they want as a consooooomer instead of what the peoole who own the market share want.

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      10 months ago

      But he says that outdoor ranges ban FMJ. You just shoot into a berm of dirt, it doesn’t matter what the bullet is. Either the poster genuinely misunderstands the rules or there are never-before-seen insane levels of fuddery going on.

      Note that hollow point ammo is not the same thing as frangible ammo. It just kinda mushrooms when it hits a soft target to cause more damage. Probably penetrates slightly worse than FMJ but it still goes through normal walls. I struggle to imagine an indoor range that could withstand JHP but not FMJ without placing everyone outside in mortal danger

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        10 months ago

        Ah i see. That makes sense. Probably some other sort of bullshit readins then. It is true that they do that at indoor ranges in Texas at least everywhere i lived. Not sure about the outdoor ones because i never looked into it, but indoor ranges in Austin and Houston were very restrictive on ammo.

        I don’t know why it is, but I’m sure whatever it is benefits the owners in some way or other lol

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            10 months ago

            If theres a cheap, corner cutting way of doing business, everyone in Texas is doing it. Bonus points if it could cause harm to others.

            Yeah the outdoor ranges don’t really make sense, and i don’t really know if they by and large have those restrictions or not.