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Core Professional Training Solutions

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

CPTS offers professional security assessments designed to provide you a detailed assessment which you can use to ensure the safety of your family or employees. CPTS will provide an honest subjective assessment and will only recommend exactly what is needed.

Our clients can expect a professional site visit from a CPTS certified assessor. During this visit the CPTS certified assessor will identify security concerns to formulate a set of remedies aimed to strengthen the weaknesses identified during the visit. Our clients concerns and needs are a valued part of this process.

In addition to our standard assessment, a CPTS certified assessor can assist you with valuable information in identifying a “Safe Room” for those critical times during a natural disaster or active threat. CPTS certified assessors are well versed in constructing emergency plans and our happy to help in this manner. These services are provided in addition to our standard assessment and can be discussed with your CPTS certified assessor.

http://www.cptsonline.com/security_assessments.html

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An Update

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

Hello everyone out there in Internet land. I just wanted to send everybody an update on where the indoor shooting range project is at.

Currently, we’re waiting to close on selling a warehouse. A&E Wholesale is currently renting space in Kornegay/Whitaker #2 LLC, and they are purchasing Kornegay/Whitaker #1 LLC from us. Once they move in, Benedict Engineering (who is next door to T.I.S.R. in Kornegay/Whitaker #4 LLC) will move into A&E’s old space in Kornegay/Whitaker #2. I’ve included a map of our Kornegay/Whitaker numbering system to make things easier.

By selling this warehouse and moving Benedict Engineering, this will allow T.I.S.R. to expand into the entire 30,000 square foot warehouse. Unfortunately, we aren’t going to be able to pour a concrete second story in the warehouse and make the entire project two stories like we had originally hoped. This is why it is so important for us to sell a warehouse and move some of our tenants around. We need more space! Not to mention, more space means we need more parking. For those of you who don’t realize what kind of project this is going to be, think of Sportsmans Warehouse. They were approximately 60,000 square feet and had approximately 550 parking spaces. We are going to be half that size, therefore we’re going to need more than the 28 parking spaces we currently have. We’ve been working on “acquiring” more parking spaces for many months now! However, we are under a gag order by another business not to talk about the acquisition until everything is final. Not to mention, we can’t purchase another property until we sell one first.

I hope everyone is staying excited! I know I’m getting more frustrated by the day, but that’s part of starting a new business venture. I wish I had more news to annouce. While I’m wishing, I wish I had construction completed! But we haven’t even started construction yet. It seems the boss doesn’t want to start construction on a multi-million dollar indoor shooting range until we’re positive we have more than 28 parking spaces… Currently, that’s only enough parking spaces for a 1/3 of our charter members at a time. Not to mention walk-in customers and general retail customers. Thinking ahead several years into the future, T.I.S.R. could have many customers at a time. Therefore, we need to plan as far in advance as possible, so we don’t run into major problems.

I’ve put together a blueprint of Phase I. I know I’ve said it before, but Phase I of construction could start any day now. Phase I is what the first part of construction is going to be. Phase I will be completed before we start on Phase II.

I’d like to thank Core Professional Training Solutions and G.O.A.T. Security for being patient with me for not having their offices ready to move into yet. I especially would like to thank all the many customers who have heard about us from word-of-mouth and are excited about another indoor shooting range coming to Tallahassee after more than 10 years!

I’m sorry I missed many of you at the last Florida Classic Gun & Knife show. I had drill all weekend for the Marine Corps Reserve here in town. I’ve been promoted to Platoon Sergeant, and I find that drill seems to sneak up on me month after month.

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TISR – Family Owned and Operated

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

Hey guys,

I didn’t realize that nobody actually knows who my “boss” really is! He’s my father! Let me tell you a little about our family. Back in 1979, Robert Kornegay, Sr. started Seacoast School Supplies out of a garage in Crawfordville, FL. Now, my father, mother, brother, sister, sister-in-law, aunt (and family friend) run the entire show out of a warehouse right next to the Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range. TISR’s only employee is me! And I’m also tasked with running Seacoast Airtight Solutions myself! The two other businesses that we are trying to run at the same time have been taking valuable time away from TISR, but because they are the reason that made TISR possible – we want to keep those businesses around! We can’t bring in people from other stores, or from other states to help open our new business. We’ve got to spread load our family members! Not to mention, November and December are the busiest months for Seacoast School Supply (www.seacoastschoolsupply.com) and we’ve also had to move our entire 10,000 square foot warehouse full of inventory from one of our warehouses to the next, in two weeks, in the middle of November!

Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range, LLC’s only employee is myself, but I also am the only employee of Seacoast Airtight Solutions (www.seacoastairtight.com). So when I’m not at the gun range, I’m either at one Seacoast or the other everyday. Having said all this, we are definitely there at the warehouses everyday, but the indoor shooting range might not be open for customers (because we are probably next door). I can’t apologize enough for not having set store hours. I wish we had the man power right now. But if you are looking for someone, or you need to talk to somebody, and nobody is answering the phone, go next door! I’ve included a map of our industrial park. You can almost ALWAYS reach somebody at Seacoast (850) 575-2093.

I know it’s just an excuse, but construction has been held up by a lot of things we couldn’t foresee without just trying them first to see if they’d work. We’ve gone through lots and lots of construction projects already; meaning, we’ve put up 5 metal warehouses ourselves in the last 10 years and now we rent them all out to tenants. There was even a liability problem that plagued us for a while with the owner of the warehouse (Kornegay/Whitaker #4, LLC which is us) being a different name than “Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range.” So we had to restructure the business names and physically write up paperwork that sold the warehouse from one of our businesses to another – and pay the fees for actually buying a piece of property that size.

But construction is just the final step! Or should I say, the beginning of the end. If we could just start construction, that means that all of our problems have gone away, and we’ll be shortly getting another whole new set of problems. Anybody that’s started a small business of their own knows the problems of trying to make money. We are trying to do this right, so it will last longer than most businesses that fail!

Also, we’ve got a warehouse with a very small parking lot, I’m not sure if you’ve seen it. Well, with the size of a facility that we are putting in (Sportsman’s Warehouse size) we weren’t going to have near enough parking spaces. So what do we do? We’ve been working on this problem day after day for a long time now, and I think we’ve solved the problem – but we’re waiting on paperwork. Everything in this life apparently revolves around paperwork.

Also to clarify the problem with our address – the physical address is still 1048 Capital Circle NW if you are putting it into Googlemaps, Garmin, Mapquest, etc. Meaning, when we built the warehouse, that was the address and that’s what it is listed as everywhere. HOWEVER, recently, the 911 service changed our address to better suit them and didn’t tell anybody. I’ve contacted Googlemaps, and others (Garmin, Mapquest, etc.) to tell them our new address is 431 Capital Circle SW, but nobody will listen or even cares. The Post Office and the 911 Service know, but nobody else knows. If you want to physically come here: use 1048. If you want to mail us a letter, use 431.

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When will the range be open?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

That’s the million dollar question! I get asked this about 3-5 times a day, and I wish I had a good answer! We are still working out a lot of things that have to do with the layout of the facility, the parking problem, the structure of the departments/employees and more. Every little steps needs to be planned, revised, and finalized and it seems everything is dependent on something else. It seems like our ambitions are bigger than what Tallahassee is prepared for! We’ve had to go outside of Tallahassee for so many of our answers because an indoor shooting range like this is unprecedented.

Let me be the first to say that this is a lot more than I was expecting two years ago this month. I dreamed back in 2009 of a small indoor shooting range (like we had back in the day), and so far, we’ve decided on putting in a business no smaller than a Sportsman’s Warehouse! Go big or go home right?
Let me give you a run down of what the Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range is going to be – once everything is said and done. We were originally thinking just an indoor shooting range with a small retail shop. Now after talking to hundreds of people, we’ve decided to make something for everyone and it’s taking a lot longer than expected. The facility we are trying to put in is way more than we originally planned. 30,000 square feet is a big project, and a lot of engineering. Keep in mind that the steel range baffles will weigh approximately 130,000 pounds. But rest assured that the range is still coming! We’ve hit snags, but no sets back. We’ve got a lot to do, and we’re doing it everyday. If I’m not at the gun shop, I’m out and about trying to get things done for the gun shop. When will the range be operational? Again, that’s the million dollar question. Look here in the near future for the answer!

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Short Barreled Rifles & You

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

Lots of people ask me, can I purchase a short barrel for my rifle and keep it at my house until my form comes back from the ATF? Even though it is completely legal to purchase a short barrel, and have it sent to your house, it is not ok for you to have it! “But what if I keep the lower receiver in one room, and the barrel in another room? That way it is not readily made operational!” What is the definition of which an NFA item may be readily made operable? The answer is, it doesn’t matter! Be careful when storing short barrel rifle parts in your home. Per the ATF, you are not allowed to possess the parts until you register the NFA item with a FORM 1 (5320.1).

ATF Frequently Asked Question:
Q: May a FFL or an individual legally possess the parts to manufacture an SBR or SBS as long as no firearms are actually assembled?A FFL (Type-7 or Type-10) who pays the Special Occupational Tax (SOT) may possess parts required to assemble NFA firearms. A non-licensee or FFL who has not paid the SOT is required to register any NFA firearm via an ATF Form 1 (5320.1) prior to acquisition of the parts required to assemble such firearm.

790.221
Possession of short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun; penalty.
(1)It is unlawful for any person to own or to have in his or her care, custody, possession, or control any short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun which is, or may readily be made, operable; but this section shall not apply to antique firearms.

(2)A person who violates this section commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(3)Firearms in violation hereof which are lawfully owned and possessed under provisions of federal law are excepted.

History.—s. 10, ch. 69-306; s. 1, ch. 89-312; s. 21, ch. 93-406; s. 1217, ch. 97-102.

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Giving a firearm as a gift this year? Remember this!

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

http://www.nssfblog.com/giving-a-firearm-as-a-gift-some-reminders-from-nssf/

The holidays are just around the corner. As hunters, shooters, collectors or just plain plinkers, it’s a natural instinct to want to share our enjoyment of firearms with others. What better way to do that than to make a gift of a firearm to a family member, close friend or relative?

The first thing to remember if you’re thinking about giving someone a gun is that . . . it’s a gun! You already know that ownership of a firearm brings with it some serious legal and ethical obligations that other consumer products don’t. So let’s look at some questions you may have about giving a firearm as a gift.

The first question you have to ask is whether the intended recipient can legally own the firearm where he or she lives. More than 20,000 different gun laws on the books, even the kinds of firearms that law-abiding citizens can own vary from place to place; for example, juveniles (under age 18) generally speaking are precluded by law from possessing a handgun. Check out the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) website for an overview of local laws and, whatever you do, don’t forget that you can never under any circumstances transfer a firearm to someone you know or have reasonable cause to believe legally can’t own one. That’s a federal felony, so be careful.

Though there’s no federal law that prohibits a gift of a firearm to a relative or friend that lives in your home state, some states—California for example—require you to transfer the gun through a local firearms dealer so an instant background check will be performed to make sure the recipient is not legally prohibited from owning the gun.

The ATF recommends that if you want to give someone a new firearm, rather than going to a gun store, buying it on your own and giving it to, say, your father, consider instead purchasing a gift certificate from that retailer and giving that to Dad as his present. That way he’ll get exactly the gun he wants, and there’s no question about who is “the actual buyer of the firearm,” which is a question any purchaser must certify on the Federal Form 4473 at the time of purchase.

You can only ship a handgun by common carrier (but not U.S. Mail) and a long gun by U.S. Mail or common carrier to a federally licensed dealer but not to a non-licensed individual. With all carriers, federal law requires you to declare that your package contains an unloaded firearm. To be safe, always consult your carrier in advance about its regulations for shipping firearms.

What if you want to give “Old Betsy,” your favorite old deer rifle, to your son or daughter as a college graduation gift? Again, in most states, there’s no law that says you can’t, but some states require even interfamily transfers to go through a licensed dealer. Remember, you can never transfer a firearm directly to another person who is a resident of a different state. In that case, you must transfer the firearm through a licensed dealer in the state where the person receiving the gift resides. Using a gift certificate from a firearms retailer near where the recipient lives might be a good solution. Pre-1898 antique firearms are generally exempt from the dealer requirement. Be safe and check with your dealer or local law enforcement before you hand over your prized possession.

It’s often an emotional moment when a treasured family heirloom is passed down to the next generation. These moments are part of what our cherished enjoyment of firearms is all about and represent that unique bond that sportsmen have with their fellow enthusiasts.

So enjoy the holidays and do it right!

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Florida Statutes

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

790.33 Field of regulation of firearms and ammunition preempted.
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(1)PREEMPTION.—Except as expressly provided by general law, the Legislature hereby declares that it is occupying the whole field of regulation of firearms and ammunition, including the purchase, sale, transfer, taxation, manufacture, ownership, possession, and transportation thereof, to the exclusion of all existing and future county, city, town, or municipal ordinances or regulations relating thereto. Any such existing ordinances are hereby declared null and void. This subsection shall not affect zoning ordinances which encompass firearms businesses along with other businesses. Zoning ordinances which are designed for the purpose of restricting or prohibiting the sale, purchase, transfer, or manufacture of firearms or ammunition as a method of regulating firearms or ammunition are in conflict with this subsection and are prohibited.

(2)LIMITED EXCEPTION; COUNTY WAITING-PERIOD ORDINANCES.—

(a)Any county may have the option to adopt a waiting-period ordinance requiring a waiting period of up to, but not to exceed, 3 working days between the purchase and delivery of a handgun. For purposes of this subsection, “purchase” means payment of deposit, payment in full, or notification of intent to purchase. Adoption of a waiting-period ordinance, by any county, shall require a majority vote of the county commission on votes on waiting-period ordinances. This exception is limited solely to individual counties and is limited to the provisions and restrictions contained in this subsection.

(b)Ordinances authorized by this subsection shall apply to all sales of handguns to individuals by a retail establishment except those sales to individuals exempted in this subsection. For purposes of this subsection, “retail establishment” means a gun shop, sporting goods store, pawn shop, hardware store, department store, discount store, bait or tackle shop, or any other store or shop that offers handguns for walk-in retail sale but does not include gun collectors shows or exhibits, or gun shows.

(c)Ordinances authorized by this subsection shall not require any reporting or notification to any source outside the retail establishment, but records of handgun sales must be available for inspection, during normal business hours, by any law enforcement agency as defined in s. 934.02.

(d)The following shall be exempt from any waiting period:

1.Individuals who are licensed to carry concealed firearms under the provisions of s. 790.06 or who are licensed to carry concealed firearms under any other provision of state law and who show a valid license;

2.Individuals who already lawfully own another firearm and who show a sales receipt for another firearm; who are known to own another firearm through a prior purchase from the retail establishment; or who have another firearm for trade-in;

3.A law enforcement or correctional officer as defined in s. 943.10;

4.A law enforcement agency as defined in s. 934.02;

5.Sales or transactions between dealers or between distributors or between dealers and distributors who have current federal firearms licenses; or

6.Any individual who has been threatened or whose family has been threatened with death or bodily injury, provided the individual may lawfully possess a firearm and provided such threat has been duly reported to local law enforcement.

(3)POLICY AND INTENT.—

(a)It is the intent of this section to provide uniform firearms laws in the state; to declare all ordinances and regulations null and void which have been enacted by any jurisdictions other than state and federal, which regulate firearms, ammunition, or components thereof; to prohibit the enactment of any future ordinances or regulations relating to firearms, ammunition, or components thereof unless specifically authorized by this section or general law; and to require local jurisdictions to enforce state firearms laws.

(b)As created by chapter 87-23, Laws of Florida, this section shall be known and may be cited as the “Joe Carlucci Uniform Firearms Act.”

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Corporate Memberships now available!

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Tallahassee Indoor Shooting Range

TISR is now offering corporate memberships at $1200. This allows up to 8 employees to have unlimited access to the range all year.

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