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Fire when ready (even in your P.J.s)
How about a home firing range? That Warner Bros. executive who installed the bowling alley had one. "We don't seek that market out, but it finds us -- and the rate at which it finds us is growing," says Mitch Petrie, director of law enforcement and commercial sale for Minneapolis-based Range Systems,http://www.range-systems.com/ which manufactures and installs range equipment for law enforcement and the government. "It's a real market."
"They're pretty normal guys -- businessmen, doctors," Petrie says of his civilian clientele. "We've got, on Long Island, a dentist; an entrepreneur in Naples, Florida who's got one in his vacation home; a scientist in the Las Vegas area; and a large general contractor in the Las Vegas area has probably a $50,000 range in his home." Costs can skyrocket, he says, as shooters invest in special ventilations systems and interactive video shooting simulators like those used by police.
One potential obstacle for homeowners: Many municipalities don't allow discharge of firearms within city limits.
Price: "$10,000 buys you a basic full-wall bullet trap system, and a cable-operated target system with some ceiling protection, as well," says Petrie. That doesn't include all ventilation or full protection from noise, however.
How about a home firing range? That Warner Bros. executive who installed the bowling alley had one. "We don't seek that market out, but it finds us -- and the rate at which it finds us is growing," says Mitch Petrie, director of law enforcement and commercial sale for Minneapolis-based Range Systems,http://www.range-systems.com/ which manufactures and installs range equipment for law enforcement and the government. "It's a real market."
"They're pretty normal guys -- businessmen, doctors," Petrie says of his civilian clientele. "We've got, on Long Island, a dentist; an entrepreneur in Naples, Florida who's got one in his vacation home; a scientist in the Las Vegas area; and a large general contractor in the Las Vegas area has probably a $50,000 range in his home." Costs can skyrocket, he says, as shooters invest in special ventilations systems and interactive video shooting simulators like those used by police.
One potential obstacle for homeowners: Many municipalities don't allow discharge of firearms within city limits.
Price: "$10,000 buys you a basic full-wall bullet trap system, and a cable-operated target system with some ceiling protection, as well," says Petrie. That doesn't include all ventilation or full protection from noise, however.