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Range Rules
The range rules as a signable document — versioned, so members always acknowledge the current one.
This section is for the range operator. Delete it before you publish this document.
HotRange is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. This text is a starting point, written in plain English so you have something to work from. It has not been reviewed by an attorney, and signing up for HotRange does not create an attorney-client relationship with anybody.
This document ships EMPTY on purpose. Range rules describe your property — your berms, your bays, your calibers, your hours — and HotRange has no idea what any of those are. Inventing rules here would put words in your mouth about how your own range operates, which is worse than a blank page.
Write your own rules in the section below, then delete this notice. Have your attorney and your insurance carrier look at them: your carrier in particular may require specific rules as a condition of coverage, and rules you cannot or do not enforce are worse than no rules at all, because a plaintiff will hold you to the ones you wrote down.
Range rules
[Range: replace this entire section with your own rules. Everything below is a checklist of topics most ranges need to cover — not rules, and not a complete list. Delete it once you have written yours.]
Topics worth covering:
- Hours and access — when the range is open, whether members may shoot alone, sign-in procedure, gate and credential use.
- Cease fire and range commands — the exact commands you use, who may call them, what happens on each, and how the line is declared cold and hot.
- Muzzle discipline and safe direction — where muzzles may point, benchrest and holster rules, when firearms may be handled behind the line, and whether you require a cased or chamber-flagged firearm off the line.
- Firearms, calibers, and rates of fire — what is permitted on each bay, any velocity or caliber limits, rapid fire, drawing from a holster, and whether any of it requires a check-out with staff.
- Targets and backstops — approved targets and stands, minimum distance for steel, what may never be shot (glass, electronics, exploding targets, tannerite), height limits and where rounds must impact the berm.
- Eye and ear protection — who must wear it, where, and whether you supply it.
- Guests and minors — how many, sign-in, supervision, and age limits.
- Alcohol, drugs, and impairment.
- Children not shooting, pets, and vehicles — where they may be, and where they may not.
- Cleanup and brass — target removal, trash, whose brass is whose, and what happens to what is left on the ground.
- Reporting — accidental discharges, injuries, damage, and unsafe behavior by others.
- Enforcement — what a violation costs, who decides, and how a member appeals it.
Write them in the order somebody would need them, put the safety rules first, and keep each one short enough to remember at a firing line.