Instead of a rental or putting in motes and materials, have the shooting range be a place you load into from the director. When you load in to the shooting range ( even have fireteam of up to 6 able to load for passive competition, challenges etc.) All guns that are not upgraded already will have nodes unlocked in the shooting range only. That way you can truly test the weapons without sinking materials into the guns.
That's a great idea about the nodes! I'm not completely confident that we'd actually get something like that, but since this is a dream anyway, might as well go all out! I like that.
I imagined it would be in the director as well. Would also make a sweet place for Truth trickshots and stuff like that. Haha
Thanks for the reply!