Yes, we have to play by the rules. But what rule requires range owners to check to see if their customer's guns are legally owned? What civil or criminal liability could they incur?Not at all. Having discussed this thread over breakfast with the President and the VP of SAGC this very morning, before we went out to the Rocky Mountain 3-Gun Day One, the point I was ever so poorly trying to make is that people can make a difference. All it took for SAGC to remove the "no full auto, no cans" on the range rules was a willingness to run for office, and the ability to put up with the Fuddites while rebuilding a crumbling infrastructure to a 500 yard range with enough bays to host the USPSA Nationals and national-level 3-Gun championships.
Along the way (of buying dozers, belly scrapers, dump trucks, and assorted goodies from the very streets of Tonka-toy heaven), we killed the Fudd rules of "no," but with the caveat that we would not allow illegal activity (pertaining to NFA items) on the range, as we already do not allow meth to be cooked or goats to be cornholed (naaaaay means naaaaaay). Is the range a law enforcement agency? No, of course not. But as both private citizens and as officials of SAGC, if we suspect a crime may be occurring we can and will call the local Johnny Law. Who, since they also use the range, and use us as trainers, are very interested in keeping the range open.
Make any money out of SAGC as a ClassIII by...not allowing illegal NFA items to be used on a private club? Wow, good one...next someone will ask for my last ten years of tax returns because "someone" heard that I didn't pay taxes while running Bain Capital...oh, wait, same thought different verse.
If you want to build your own NFA stuff, get a license. Sixty five bucks every three years for a FFL 07, plus $500 per year for the SOT. Then you can build whatever you want...legally...but you still have to carry paper on each and every item!
If you want to shoot anything, legal or not, build your own range.
My bottom line, here at the bottom (note: No reference to goats, bottoms or otherwise): The NFA rules suck. They are horrible rules, in my opinion directly in violation of the US Constitution, and should be thrown out. We can't do that from here at the bottom of the suck-pool. We have to drain the pool, elect Americans to office and not Euro-trash (or adopted Indonesian-trash) to run the country long enough to return it to what it was intended (but rarely actually was). However, if we don't want to play "hide the salami" with Big Bubba for ten long at Club Fed, we have to play by the rules. Such as they are, not as we wish them to be.
Alex