page_title: Shooting range
section_title: Physical components
hierarchical_section_title: Shooting range / Type / Indoor range / Physical components
caption_attribution_description: English: A shooting range.
context_page_description: A shooting range, firing range or gun range is a specialized facility designed for firearms qualifications, training or practice. Some shooting ranges are operated by military or law enforcement agencies, though the majority of ranges are privately owned and cater to recreational shooters. Each facility is typically overseen by one or more supervisory personnel, called variously a range master or "Range Safety Officer" in the US, or a range conducting officer in the UK. Supervisory personnel are responsible for ensuring that all weapon safety rules and relevant government regulations are followed at all times.
  Shooting ranges can be indoor or outdoor and may be restricted to certain types of firearm that can be used such as handguns or rifles, or they can specialize in certain shooting sports such as skeet shooting or 10 m Air Pistol/Rifle. Most indoor ranges restrict the use of certain powerful calibers, rifles, or fully automatic weapons.
  A shooting gallery is a recreational shooting facility with very low-powered guns, often located within amusement parks, arcades, carnivals or fairgrounds that provides games and entertainments for the visiting crowd.
context_section_description: Some firing ranges are equipped with shooting booths to provide shooters with a defined firing area and to reduce potential hazard from misfires and ejected bullet cartridges from adjacent shooters.  Shooting booths are made of partitions or panels which can be acoustically treated to reduce the effect of weapons discharge on other shooters.  The booths are sometimes equipped with communication or target-operation equipment; target or booth lighting controls; shelves for holding weapons and bullets, or to prevent shooters from going downrange; and equipment for practicing shooting from behind a barrier.  The firing line, usually marked red or orange, runs along the downrange edge of the shooting booths.  Some ranges have motion detectors that can set off an alarm when a shooter passes this line during shooting. 
  Target systems consist of a target, a target carrier system, and a target control system.  Targets for indoor firing ranges are usually a paper sheet or piece of corrugated cardboard with a printed target image on the sheet.  The target carrier system allows the firing range to operate more efficiently and safely by transporting the target and frame between the firing line and the target line, in both downrange and uprange directions.  The target control system allows the range master to control the operation and movement of the targets through a central control station in the control booth.  Some firing ranges provide local control modules that can be operated in the shooting booths.
caption: An indoor shooting range
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