Louis of PA,

Thank you for your kind comment(s).

As a club official it was always my objective to treat everyone equally, assure that safety measures where observed and promote the well being of the club within the membership and the local community. I held a "strict constructionist" opinion of the clubs' By-Laws. I always pointed out the amendment clause contained in them to anyone objecting to my stance.
As far as our range security goes we've found that our "any member may proof any person on the property" policy has led to a great reduction in "sneak in's".
Should a member come across a tresspasser they instruct the tresspasser to leave, also member gets the vehicle tag number. The local PD then provides the name and address of the violator, to whom the club sends a warning letter. If there is a repeat violator we file a complaint, which we've only had to do twice. It seems that word eventually gets around that the club is not to be toyed with. We occassionally hear from the community that the club has a reputation of not tolerating tresspassers. Of course the local police and town court does its' part to help.
Due to our intensive (about three hours), mandatory. pre-membership meeting, we don't have much trouble with new members as far as range safety issues/misuse goes. About an hour of that meeting is dedicated to Rifle/Pistol range use policy. By the way, every new member gets a copy of the club By-Laws and a copy of the range rules to take home. "I didn't know excuses" are never accepted, but we don't often clobber 1st time range rule violators either. A second offense is a differant situation.
Our biggest range problem comes from those members who joined prior to when our mandatory meeting policy began about 15 years ago. Even though we supply a list of range procedures in at least one newsletter (which goes out to all members) EVERY year, a few of those older people feel that they are exempt or otherwise worthy of special status somehow based on their long term membership.
That attitude seemed to change suddenly after word got around (ie in a newsletter) as to what happened with the group of old bullies mentioned in my previous post. We did have several older members who resigned in sympathy (just couldn't reason with them) with those members which were expelled but our subsequent increase in new member applicants and member retention that quickly followed that action is proof enough for me that the correct thing was done.

KCW