Editing Shooting range (section)

{{Short description|Specialized facility designed for firearms practice}}
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{{redirect|Rifle Range|the locality in Australia|Rifle Range, Queensland}}
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[[File:Federal law enforcement officers during firearms training exercises at indoor firing range.jpg|alt=An indoor firing (shooting) range of U.S. federal law enforcement personnel. A range master is shown supervising typical firearms training exercises.|thumb|300x300px|Law enforcement personnel train on an indoor range. A rangemaster is shown supervising.]]

A '''shooting range''', '''firing range''', '''gun range''' or '''shooting ground''' is a specialized facility, [[sports venue|venue]], or [[playing field|field]] designed specifically for [[firearm]] usage qualifications, training, practice, or [[shooting sport|competition]]s. Some shooting ranges are operated by [[military]] or [[law enforcement]] agencies, though the majority of ranges are privately owned by civilians and [[sporting club]]s and cater mostly to recreational shooters. Each facility is typically overseen by one or more [[supervisor]]y personnel, known as a ''Range Officer'' (RO), or sometimes a ''range master'' in the [[United States]]. Supervisory personnel are responsible for ensuring that all [[firearm safety|safety]] rules and relevant [[gun law|laws]] 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 [[handgun]]s or [[long gun]]s, or they can specialize in certain [[shooting at the Summer Olympics|Olympic disciplines]] such as [[trap shooting|trap]]/[[skeet shooting]] or [[10 m Air Pistol|10 m air pistol]]/[[10 m Air Rifle|rifle]].  Most indoor ranges restrict the use of high-power [[caliber]]s, [[rifle]]s, or [[automatic firearm|fully automatic firearms]].

A '''shooting gallery''' is a recreational shooting facility with [[toy gun]]s (usually very low-power [[airgun]]s such as [[BB gun]]s or [[airsoft gun]]s, occasionally [[light gun]]s or even [[water gun]]s), often located within [[amusement park]]s, [[amusement arcade|arcade]]s, [[traveling carnival|carnival]]s or [[fair]]grounds, to provide safe casual [[carnival game|game]]s and [[entertainment]] for the visiting crowd by [[prize|prizing]] customers with various [[doll]]s, [[toy]]s and [[souvenir]]s as [[trophies]].