The shooting range is simply a networking environment. Its where a would-be gun buyer can get connected with the individuals who have ties to the black market and can hook them up with weapons in countries where gun ownership is restricted. In other words, its the place where legal gun enthusiasts come into contact with the sort of figures you would only otherwise reach through involvement in criminal gangs.
What these weapons dealers have available for their customers varies greatly, but typically most of their stuff will originally come from Eastern Europe. A lot of weapons disappeared out of the arsenals of collapsed communist states at the end of the Cold War and fell into the hands of criminals in this way, though today the primest equipment is that being sent to Ukraine by NATO countries that then conveniently disappears once it changes hands.
The shooting range is simply a networking environment. Its where a would-be gun buyer can get connected with the individuals who have ties to the black market and can hook them up with weapons in countries where gun ownership is restricted. In other words, its the place where legal gun enthusiasts come into contact with the sort of figures you would only otherwise reach through involvement in criminal gangs.
What these weapons dealers have available for their customers varies greatly, but typically most of their stuff will originally come from Eastern Europe. A lot of weapons disappeared out of the arsenals of collapsed communist states at the end of the Cold War and fell into the hands of criminals in this way, though today the primest equipment is that being sent to Ukraine by NATO countries that then conveniently disappears once it changes hands.