My name is Brandon Wallace. On Saturday of July 19'th My friends Eric Walker, William Stone, Alex Walker, and I went to C2 shooting range located on Emerald Drive in Tempe Arizona for a reserved shooting session at 12:45pm I brought a 40 caliber Glock 24c, with serial HGG685 and an non ported Stock Glock .40 caliber branded barrel with serial L39777. The other firearms I brought were a .45caliber custom model 1911 handgun with serial 67392 and an AR-15 pattern rifle in .22 (5.56x45 caliber) with serial X13850. We are regular members and book a session almost every week barring sickness or family events. I compete in the United States Practical Shooting Association, also known and abbreviated as USPSA. I would like to preface by saying. I am not Ben Stoeger, I don't hit x ring every time, and am no grandmaster. But I can top B class (above average) or hit master (very good) scores on a good day in a non national match. The reason I state these facts prematurely is I feel it gives some background into my shooting experience level, some critical facts about the firearms and rounds that I was firing, and my reasons for coming and shooting so often. To note, the defendant Nathan Chism, the Head Range Safety Officer, had to switch our cardboard target holder before we even started shooting due to the clip being broken. He gave us a fine condition replacement, however, and this can be noted by the attending parties listed as well.The cardboard holder had what appeared to be several .22 caliber holes in it already. The main facet of this incident began after about an hour or so of my friends and I shooting and running some shooting drills, which, if you are not familiar, are strings of fire often involving transitioning to multiple targets on a paper or multiple rounds in a row. Since we are running drills there is a minimum of one other person supervising the shooter at all times and calling good hits. We also do not exceed 15 rounds including or not including a reload. We do this for indoor drills before taping up the target and counting the score factor using the USPSA scoring system. We had an issue with our carrier tablet on our range going to zero percent and not being functional after I had fired two rounds of 5.56 out of my AR-15 which landed low and right of the center paper target which is verifiable on video. I go over to the Head Range Safety Officer as I do not want to mess up their system. After coming over Nathan in a very accusatory tone that was heard by my shooting partner and the two others in the lane next to us, "Who shot that." while pointing to a piece of steel on the carrier that is well over 3 feet above where our target was posted. Note, shooting steel is not particularly quiet as demonstrated by this clip of Max Michel, a multi-time Champion. (https://youtu.be/PhShNmkO18Y?t=8), if this was the case and we had shot the steel everyone including the other range officers in the vicinity (of which there was at least one) would have heard it and likely called cease fire or bare minimum came over to reprehend us in the moment as well as likely others from the range would have heard/seen the spalling sparks. What would not is what happened in reality which is Nathan waiting till AFTER we called him over to see what the carrier tablet was doing. The pre-existing damage to the carrier cardboard and steel that was observed by all parties noted in the beginning of this report also would not have caused the issue we were having. Note also, that this is not the first time that we have had an issue with this Range Safety Officer accusing us or others of something he could not prove they did as well as threatening fines. After telling him it could not have been us as we counted and taped our rounds and that he could check the video to prove it, Nathan then pointed at the .22 caliber holes that were in the cardboard that were again, mentioned and observed by several third parties prior to us even receiving it. I then pointed out the facts that .40 and .45, and for that matter 9mm (.357-.38ish caliber) are in fact, almost twice as large as a .22 bore and too large a bore to scientifically make holes as clean cut and small as the .22 caliber holes he pointed out. He then stated in his exact words "Oh, you guys were shooting a .40 and a.45." proving the prior statement, tone of confrontation, and "show and tell" esque presentation of the existing holes as well as threatening of fees was on the generous side at least an ego trip and negligent and to the surface level to all attending parties, this appeared to be nothing but malicious. This is obviously slanderous for the fact that ALL of the accusations levied by Nathan Chism are just plain scientifically disprovable to a child with a basic test. Not mentioning the fact that we have not seen evidence of our wrongdoing on the prior incident which happened on lane 7 nor our supposed wrongdoing this time either. read more