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A day at the range should never end in the emergency room. When a facility's negligence, a careless shooter, or defective equipment causes a serious injury, you deserve answers and accountability. We represent injured shooters and bystanders across the Southeast.
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Shooting ranges, gun clubs, and firearms training facilities invite the public onto one of the most hazardous environments in any business. With that invitation comes a duty to run the facility safely, and when a range breaks that duty, the injuries are rarely minor. We represent people hurt at indoor and outdoor ranges across Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.
These cases sit squarely within personal injury law, but they demand a deeper understanding of range operations: firing-line supervision, backstop and baffle engineering, ventilation and lead standards, equipment maintenance, and the waivers ranges rely on to avoid responsibility. A signed release is not the end of the story, and neither is an insurer's quick denial.
Whether you were struck by a ricochet, suffered permanent hearing or vision loss, were hurt by a defective rental firearm, or were injured by another shooter's carelessness or an instructor's negligence, we investigate what went wrong and pursue every party responsible for it.
We also represent neighboring property owners on the other side of the fence. When a range floods your land with unreasonable gunfire noise or lets stray rounds cross onto your property, nuisance and trespass law can provide both compensation and a court order limiting the danger, and we know how the Southeast's sport-shooting range statutes shape those claims.
Former defense attorneys, now on your side. We spent years defending businesses and insurers, so we know exactly how ranges try to shift blame onto the shooter, and how to prove the facility's negligence instead.
From injuries on the firing line to nuisance and trespass claims for neighbors, we cover how ranges, gun clubs, and training facilities harm the people around them.
Indoor and outdoor ranges must supervise shooters, enforce safety rules, and control the firing line. When they fail, bystanders and shooters get hurt.
A shooting range that opens its firing line to the public assumes a duty to supervise it. Range safety officers are expected to enforce muzzle discipline, control ceasefires, watch for unsafe handling, and remove shooters who put others at risk. When a range is understaffed, its officers are untrained, or its rules go unenforced, a foreseeable accident becomes the facility's responsibility. We investigate staffing records, incident logs, and internal safety policies to prove where supervision broke down.
Poorly designed backstops, hard surfaces, and improper baffling send rounds and fragments where they should never go, injuring shooters and bystanders alike.
A properly engineered range is built to contain every round. Backstops, berms, side berms, and overhead baffles are designed so that bullets and fragments cannot ricochet back toward the line or escape the property. When those systems are worn out, poorly designed, or never installed correctly, ricochets and lead splash-back cause serious eye and body injuries. These cases often turn on range engineering standards and maintenance records, and we work with ballistics and range-design experts to establish the facility's failure.
Ranges that fail to require or provide proper protection, or that ventilate poorly, can leave patrons with permanent hearing loss, eye injuries, and lead exposure.
The obvious hazards of a range are not the only ones. Facilities that fail to require eye and ear protection, or that operate with inadequate ventilation, expose patrons to permanent hearing damage, eye injuries, and hazardous airborne lead. Indoor ranges in particular are subject to ventilation and lead-exposure standards. When a range ignores them, the resulting harm may not appear until later, and we pursue claims for these less-visible but life-altering injuries.
Malfunctioning target retrieval systems, faulty rental firearms, and broken shooting stalls can cause serious injuries that fall on the range and its suppliers.
Ranges that rent firearms and operate mechanical equipment must keep it safe and well maintained. A rental gun that malfunctions, a target carrier that fails, or a damaged shooting stall can cause devastating injuries. Depending on the facts, liability may rest with the range for negligent maintenance, or extend to the manufacturer or distributor of a defective product. We evaluate both negligence and product-liability theories to reach every responsible party.
Firearms classes and guided experiences put an instructor in charge of your safety. Negligent instruction and poor group control lead to preventable injuries.
When you take a concealed-carry course, a beginner class, or a guided shooting experience, the instructor and facility take responsibility for running it safely. Negligent instruction, oversized classes, unsafe hands-on demonstrations, and a failure to screen or supervise students can all cause injuries to participants and observers. We hold instructors, their employers, and the host facility accountable when negligent teaching turns a class into an emergency.
Beyond the firing line, ranges are businesses that owe visitors a safe property, from parking lots to lead-contaminated floors and poor signage.
A shooting range is also a premises-liability defendant. Like any business open to the public, it must keep walkways, parking areas, retail floors, and common areas reasonably safe, warn of hidden hazards, and address known dangers such as lead contamination. When a visitor is hurt by an unsafe condition that the range knew about or should have discovered, ordinary premises-liability principles apply, and we pursue those claims alongside any firing-line negligence.
Neighboring property owners do not have to accept relentless gunfire noise. When a range disrupts the ordinary use and enjoyment of nearby land, a nuisance claim may force change.
A shooting range that subjects neighbors to constant, unreasonable noise can be liable for private nuisance. The law asks whether the interference with your use and enjoyment of your land is substantial and unreasonable, weighing factors like volume, frequency, hours of operation, and the character of the area. A nuisance claim can seek both money damages for the harm you have suffered and an injunction limiting hours or requiring noise mitigation. We evaluate these claims carefully, since Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina each have sport-shooting range protection statutes that can shield established ranges, and we know how those limits and their exceptions apply.
When bullets, fragments, or shot leave a range and land on your property, that physical intrusion is a trespass, and a serious safety threat, that the law takes seriously.
A range is responsible for keeping every projectile on its own property. When rounds, ricochets, or shot cross the boundary onto neighboring land, that physical invasion is a trespass regardless of intent, and it endangers everyone nearby. Unlike ordinary noise nuisance, projectiles escaping the range fall outside the protection of shooting-range statutes and can support claims for property damage, an injunction, and, where someone is struck, serious personal injury. We use ballistics and range-design experts to prove rounds originated from the facility and to establish the backstop or baffle failures that allowed them to escape.
Range injury cases are technical, and the other side fights hard. Here is what sets our representation apart.
Range injuries are often catastrophic, involving gunshot wounds, permanent hearing loss, or vision damage. We build and try high-stakes injury cases, and that credibility drives better settlements.
As former insurance defense attorneys, we know how ranges and their insurers use waivers and assumption-of-risk arguments, and how to defeat them when negligence is the real cause.
These cases turn on range engineering, ballistics, ventilation standards, and safety protocols. We work with the specialized experts who can prove exactly what the facility did wrong.
We represent injured shooters and bystanders across Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, at indoor ranges, outdoor ranges, gun clubs, and firearms training facilities throughout the Southeast.
This is not theoretical for us. News outlets across Alabama have covered our ongoing litigation against a gun range whose stray rounds struck neighboring homes.
The first report on the case: residents say bullets escaped the range and struck their homes, and the owners blocked their road after receiving the complaint. “My clients and their grandchildren are afraid of being shot on their property,” Post said.
Read the full storyEight Danville residents filed a 10-count amended complaint after bullets escaped the range and the owner blocked their only road during Thanksgiving week. Post called it “deliberate retaliation designed to cause maximum distress.”
Read the full storyResidents allege that bullets from Inner Circle Shooting Range struck near a child’s bedroom window and one home was hit by a dozen bullets since the range opened in 2024. Our firm filed suit on their behalf.
Read the full storyNeighbors allege stray bullets struck their homes, some inches from a child’s bedroom window. “My clients would like to stand in their front yards alongside their grandchildren and not be shot.”
Read the full storyAfter the range owner blocked a driveway the neighbors had used for 20 years, the judge ruled in their favor. “If this continues, someone will get shot… Every right comes with responsibility,” Post said.
Read the full storyBoth sides agreed to halt long-range shooting while the case proceeds. “You can freely and fully enjoy your Second Amendment rights while shooting safely,” Post said. “We’re asking folks to enjoy their rights, but uphold their duties.”
Read the full storyShooting range injury claims are handled on a contingency fee, so getting strong representation costs you nothing upfront. We explain everything at your free consultation, with no obligation.
You pay no upfront attorney fees. We only earn a fee if we recover compensation for you, so our interests are aligned with yours from day one.
Range injury cases require experts in ballistics, engineering, and safety standards. We front those investigation costs so your case is built the right way.
Your initial consultation is always free and confidential. We will tell you honestly whether you have a case, who is responsible, and what it may be worth.
Straight answers to the questions injured shooters and their families ask most.
Often, yes. A signed liability waiver is not an automatic bar to a claim. Courts across Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina scrutinize these releases, and many do not protect a range from its own negligence, gross negligence, or reckless conduct, and none protect against defective products. Whether a waiver defeats your claim depends on its exact wording, the state's law, and how your injury happened, so have it reviewed before assuming you have no case.
Potentially several parties. Depending on the facts, responsibility may fall on the range or gun club that failed to supervise or maintain the facility, a negligent instructor and their employer, another shooter who acted carelessly, or the manufacturer of a defective rental firearm or piece of range equipment. We identify every potentially liable party so that all available insurance and assets are on the table.
Get medical attention immediately, even for hearing or eye symptoms that seem minor at first. If you can, note the names of range officers and witnesses, photograph the stall or area where it happened, and keep any paperwork you signed. Do not give a recorded statement to the range's insurer before speaking with an attorney, and contact us for a free review so evidence like incident reports and range video can be preserved.
Nothing upfront. Shooting range injury claims are handled on a contingency fee, which means you pay no attorney fees unless and until we recover money for you. Your initial consultation is always free and confidential, and we advance the costs of investigating and building your case.
Possibly both. Unreasonable gunfire noise that interferes with the use and enjoyment of your property can support a private nuisance claim, and any round, fragment, or shot that crosses onto your land is a trespass regardless of intent. Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina all have sport-shooting range protection statutes that can shield an established range from certain noise-based nuisance suits, but those protections generally do not cover projectiles escaping the property or a range operated negligently. We review the statute, the range's history, and the facts to determine whether you can recover damages, obtain an injunction, or both.
They share core duties to supervise the firing line and contain rounds, but each has distinct hazards. Indoor ranges must meet ventilation and airborne-lead standards and manage confined-space acoustics, while outdoor ranges depend heavily on backstop, berm, and baffle design to contain rounds. We tailor the investigation to the type of facility and the standards that apply to it.
We are based in Hoover, Alabama and represent injured shooters and bystanders across the Southeast, including Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. That covers the Birmingham-Hoover metro and Central Alabama as well as ranges, gun clubs, and training facilities throughout Georgia and South Carolina.