I fully support the RSO:
Some of the comments were rather stupid:
You can trespass them, but you can’t take their property. Trying to take a gun out of someone’s hand is a great way to get shot. Again this was likely a rental. I’ve been to shooting ranges when people did careless things and they were just kicked out, at no point where their firearms taken.
He can definitely trespass them and tell them to never come back, but if it’s their personal firearm, he has no authority to confiscate it.
So you would shoot the RSO for grabbing your firearm because you were pointing it at your friend’s head so he could get a cool social media picture? What would you rather the RSO do?
Quite a few people in the comments are saying the range is private property, the range has rules, or some other reason for excusing what the RSO did. They are also all wrong.
What the RSO is seeing is what any reasonable person would conclude is a threat to the health and life of the person who is the target of this stupid gun handling. At the very least, this is brandishing a firearm, and more likely an imminent threat of manslaughter. Under the law, that RSO could just as easily shoot the moron waving the gun around to protect everyone in the range. Instead, that RSO took steps that are the least of his options- he took the firearms and escorted them out. If those guns are not rentals, you can have them back when you leave the property.
Owning a firearm carries with it a responsibility to not be an idiot with it. I would hope that the RSO at my local range would intervene with more than a strongly worded trespass warning while standing over my cooling body because some idiot was waving a loaded gun around for Tik Tok fame.
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