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Tiff wrote:Well the dust has barely settled, but thought I'd add a brief update for those interested in how things went at the meeting this evening.

Firstly I'd like to publicly thank Chapuis for his significant help regarding fire safety legislation and hopefully the committee will take action soon.

In essence, the meeting tonight was entertaining....
I printed off some of the relevant guidelines/legislation for range & fire safety and handed them out before it started. The look of sheer bewilderment on many of the members faces was amusing.

There was the usual "I've been here for 60 years, what right have you got to ask us to change now" & "if you go and leave the area with work in 6 months, why should we change anything".

A couple of committee members took offense that I'd been quietly looking into things behind the scenes - something I unfortunately had to do, after publicly asking to see the range safety certificate & range orders etc (not unreasonable as an RCO...) and being told not to worry about them, they exisit somewhere. A situation I still can't get my head round!

The good news is they have formed a private sub committee to look into the range saftey aspect, including getting the lead levels monitored (any ideas on who could do this?). The vice chairman will look into getting a fire risk assessment done by a retired fire officer he knows.

Plus there will be a new nights shooting introduced in January to coach beginners, with new members being actively sought - a big positive change!

The downside is in the meantime it carries on as usual, with no known copy of the range saftey certificate in existance, significant breaches of the fire code and about 18 out of 20 points on the NRA/NRSA indoor range inspection sheet currently being breached. I'm certainly not happy RCO'ing for the club untill this is resolved, since I simply cannot see how our NSRA insurance is valid?

I'm hoping the seriousness of the situation will sink in with most of the committee (some are unfortunately lost causes) in the next couple of weeks.

Tiff

HALODIN wrote:We're lucky, we have a forward looking club and we've just built our second clubhouse on the back of our outside 25 yard range. The 2 years before this, we built a covered steel firing point for our 50/100 yard ranges. I joined the committee earlier this year because I wanted to rebuild our club website (nearly finished...), but I gave up counting the hours once it went past 60...

My advice for what it's worth, is lead by example, put your own money in to it if you have to, have a fundraiser, raise the profile of the club, build some momentum and don't let the buggers get you down.

TattooedGun wrote:The first thing, and possibly the best thing due to the influx of members and enquiries, that I did for my club on joining was re-doing the website. I didn't count any hours, but it was certainly more than 60 went into it...!

Robert303 wrote:Can anyone let me have a link to the NRA / NSRA range inspection site or the site with the inspection reports. I too a having problems with a club more interested in internal politics and conspiracy theories than the future of shooting. There are a number of things wrong and it may be a way of telling them to stop the nonsense and concentrate on reality.