I'm not too bright these days, old age and infirmity having taken a toll of my sensibilities, such as they were.
But I find it very strange to think of people on their hands and knees,scrubbing the floor of a gun range.
Luckily, I spend a great proportion of my time not living here,
where such embarrassments are inflicted on law-abiding citizens at the behest of a bunch of nannies in grey suits.
I personally would have paid money to have seen the exploding vacuum cleaner. However, I'm guessing that this was a one-time event, rather than an every-night conclusion to an otherwise relatively safe evening of shooting.
Nothing like setting a prohibition after a single, one-off incident. However, I'm cheered up immensely by the mental image of your fellow gun club members on their hands and knees scrubbing away at the floor of your range.
Good luck with that, and don't forget to wear gloves, right? We don't want chapped 'housewife handies', do we?
Apropos your last point, you might care to take a break from spreading the contents of a bucket over your floor, and
examine any lead ball for canelures. I have yet to see ANY pre-lubed ball on sale here, or anywhere else. But, like most other folks of a similar mindset, I'm not here just to pass on the good news, but also to learn from the better-informed. I've only been shooting unlubed ball from BP revolvers since the middle 1960's,
as detailed by Messrs Colt, Remington and others, s
o I would expect my revolvers from that time to have a bore that would barely permit a sewing needle to pass down it. Needless to say, this is not the case.
tac