Your Range Won’t Get Shut Off By A Vendor In California
Hosting, email, membership billing and on-site IT for shooting ranges and gun clubs — on hardware we own and operate in the United States, including the mail servers your member list sends from.
The Short Answer
Yes — we host shooting ranges and gun clubs on purpose, on hardware we own in the United States. That covers the range website, lane booking and waiver pages, staff and instructor email from $1.95 per user a month, member email marketing on our own SMTP servers and our own software, and the network behind the counter. Keep your existing range management software. On payments we build and host the checkout and integrate with your 2A-friendly processor rather than underwriting the merchant account ourselves.
The Providers That Already Cut Off The Firearms Industry
GoDaddy removed AR15.com in January 2021
GoDaddy issued its own statement confirming it gave AR15.com — at the time the largest firearms forum on the internet — notice to move to another registrar. A registrar is a single point of failure: lose it and your website, your email and your membership portal go dark at once.
PayPal prohibits firearms and ammunition outright
PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy lists ammunition, firearms and certain firearm parts and accessories among the transactions it does not permit. Ranges selling range time, memberships or retail through PayPal are operating against the stated policy.
Stripe classifies firearms as a restricted business
Stripe’s published restricted-business list includes rifles, shotguns and pistols, along with regulated parts and accessories such as suppressors. Restricted means conditional and revocable, not safely onboarded.
Intuit closed thousands of firearms merchant accounts
Intuit shut down merchant accounts belonging to firearms businesses and reversed the policy only in September 2023, after a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee investigation. Those businesses got no transition period.
This is not a hypothetical risk range owners talk themselves into. Every provider below published the policy or the decision themselves.
- Liberation Campaign runs on our own SMTP and our own software No third-party relay sits between your member list and your members. There is no upstream acceptable use policy that can override ours and no vendor in a position to decide a range is not worth the trouble.
- Billed on sends, not on member count A club with 1,800 members that mails twice a month sends 3,600 emails. You pay for those, not for the size of the roster. $10 a month covers 10,000 emails.
- What it does not do Owning the relay removes the policy risk. Receiving providers still filter mail on their own terms, so authentication and list hygiene still matter — we set those up and tell you plainly if the problem is the sending rather than the servers.
Member Email On Mail Servers We Own
Ranges live on their member list — class announcements, renewals, match schedules, range closures. It is also the account most often cut off.
Everything A Range Runs, On Infrastructure We Own
Range website hosting that handles a Saturday
Fast, secure hosting for your public site, lane booking, class calendars and waiver forms — sized for the traffic you get on a weekend morning and a holiday sale, not for an average that never happens.
Staff and instructor email on your own domain
Real business email for the front desk, RSOs, instructors and management, on servers we own in the United States. We do not scan message contents, we do not sell or share your data, and we will tell you in writing exactly who can reach it. From $1.95 per user a month.
Membership dues, collected on your own site
Recurring membership billing, class and range-time payments and retail checkout, built into a site we host. Firearms-adjacent merchant accounts need a specialist acquirer — we build and host the store and integrate with the 2A-friendly processor you use rather than implying the merchant-account problem is ours to solve.
On-site IT: point of sale, cameras, Wi-Fi and backups
The network behind the counter matters as much as the website. POS and register networking, camera and DVR connectivity, member and guest Wi-Fi separation, and backups that are actually tested — remotely or on site.
A range is a retail counter, a membership program, a training school and a facility full of networked hardware.
- Your range management platform stays put If you run Rapid Gun Systems, RangeWorks, Bizzflo, EZFacility, Coreware or a POS your distributor set up, keep it. We host and secure everything around it and make sure the pieces talk to each other.
- Booking and waiver tools embed cleanly Lane reservations, class registration and digital waivers embed into a site we host, so members get one address to remember instead of four logins from four vendors.
- One number to call when something breaks When the register cannot reach the internet twenty minutes before a class, you should not be diagnosing whether it is the ISP, the switch, the POS vendor or the website.
Works With The Range Software You Already Use
We are not asking you to replace the range management system your staff already knows.
Moving A Range Over Without Closing For A Day
We map what you have first
Domain, DNS, hosting, email, member list, membership platform, processor, POS and cameras — written down before anything moves.
Email, website and list move without a gap
Mailboxes migrate with history intact, the member list transfers with sending reputation warmed rather than shocked, and the cutover is scheduled for your slowest hours.
Your staff gets trained on what changed
A short walkthrough for the people who actually use it, plus written notes they can keep at the counter.
- Liberation Email from $1.95 per user/mo; Mail Pro $7.95 per user/mo
- Liberation Campaign send-based: $10/mo for 10,000 emails, $20/mo for 40,000 — our own SMTP, billed on sends rather than member count
- Hub for Teams $7.49 per user/mo
- Managed VPS from $59/mo on annual billing ($79/mo monthly)
- Website Builder $10.99/mo at the budget end, or a built site priced as a project
- CodeGuard encrypted off-site backups from $2.09/mo; SiteLock Fix $14.99/mo or Defend $49.99/mo
- Membership checkout built into your site and connected to your processor — project-priced
- On-site networking, POS, camera and Wi-Fi work scoped per range
Gun Ranges & Shooting Sports FAQs
Will you actually host a firearms business?
Yes. Ranges, gun clubs, FFL dealers and training facilities are businesses we serve on purpose, not exceptions we tolerate. Our infrastructure is owned and operated in the United States, so there is no upstream provider quietly making that decision for us.
Can we email our member list without getting cut off?
Yes. Liberation Campaign runs on our own SMTP servers and our own software, so no third-party relay policy can override ours. It is billed on emails sent rather than member count, which suits a club roster that grows.
Can you handle membership billing and range fees?
We build and host the billing and checkout on your own site and integrate it with your payment processor. We are not a merchant acquirer — firearms-adjacent businesses need a specialist one, and we would rather say that plainly.
Do we have to replace our range management software?
No. Keep the platform your staff already knows. We host and secure the website, email, network and backups around it.
What happens to our current website during a move?
It stays live until the new one is ready. We build and test on a staging copy, then cut over during your slowest hours.
Can you support the network at the range itself?
Yes. Point of sale and register networking, camera and DVR connectivity, separated member and guest Wi-Fi, firewall and backups — remotely, and on site where coverage allows.
How much does hosting for a gun range cost?
Email starts at $1.95 per user a month, member email marketing at $10 a month for 10,000 sends, and managed VPS at $59 a month on annual billing. A full managed relationship including on-site IT is scoped per range.
Where are the servers located?
In data centers we own and operate in the United States — not resold capacity and not a region chosen for cost reasons. We will tell you which facility, in writing.
Talk To Someone Who Has Done This For A Range
Tell us what you run today — website, email, member list, membership platform, processor, POS — and we will tell you what moving looks like, what it costs, and what we would leave alone.
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