Only reason I heard at an indoor range, was they don't like the steel core sparking on their steel backstop.
Indoors, fine. I get that.
Shotgun Jeremy was prohibited from using fmj at an outdoor range, shooting into a dirt berm. I still haven't heard a legit reason for a rule like that in a place like that.
Considering that reply, as stated and without any special circumstances, I'd say you were lied to. As I said in another thread regarding air travel with firearms, if you ask people a question and they don't know the answer, there's a strong human instinct to just make shit up.I just called Garland Shooting Range...They just told me its federal law...
If a range has been in negotiations with the attorneys for people who want to sue them, then agreements can be reached that contain all sorts of idiotic provisions. In my area, a range named Carter's Country has some insane, downright anti-safety rules that they strictly enforce because those procedures were dictated by the lawyers for the downrange subdivision. They either agreed or would have been sued out of existence. If something like that is going on at Garland, the real reasons for what they do may be completely stupid...but they still have to comply....Garland has been in some hot water...and they have been required to make a lot of changes.
Just so I don't have to back track I count 6-Yes and 2-Maybe:
Clarke
Greg
Ben
Sugar britches
Brains
subseashooter?
AKmike?
Hellz yea Brains, we need someone to givez the poo poo to