This Is Why Your Range May Not Allow You To Shoot Tracers

By Tom Knighton

Tracers are cool. Ever since I watched the start of the Gulf War on CNN, I’ve loved the image of tracer fire in the dark. Well, that and the fact that it makes an ordinary firearm look like a blaster out of Star Wars or something.

However, a lot of places have a rule against shooting tracers. No matter how cool, they won’t let you shoot them, which I’ve heard plenty of folks complain about through the years.

There’s a reason for that rule, though. This:

Friday night around 80 firefighters from departments across the Tri-Cities region were called to Barnett’s Guns in Hampton for a fire that took hours to put out.

When we spoke to Barnett Monday, he said at the time of the fire he was in Florida buying guns at a distributor show.

“This is very hard on me and, we’ve lost everything…I put the roof on it, I put the ridge cap…this is part of me, I worked hard on this, it took me a lifetime to build that,” Barnett said.

It’s a fire we now know was ignited by a customer at the range, shooting a tracer round.

Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunceford said as far as his …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms