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I'm pretty sure it doesn't say anywhere in the rulebook that you can only kill things that are in range but that doesn't seem fair...anyone wanna light it up for me?

As long as those models are in range of a least one weapon, then the others weapons can kill them (as long as they were in range of the unit at the start of their shooting attack).

Check the FAQ's and shooting rules, there's been a couple of updates.

You need to be in range with at least one model in the firing unit. This is covered in the basic Shooting rules very early on in the rulebook. You check for line of sight AND range, if you don't have both you can't fire at that unit (though you may still choose another target to fire at instead).

If you're in range with at least one model, the short answer is that you ignore range for the purposes of allocating wounds as long as the firing *MODEL* was in range in the first place. In other words - models that weren't in range of anything can't fire at all. Models that were in range of something can kill anything within the longest range the firing unit has.

As Grendel083 said, make sure you check the Rulebook FAQ in particular. Wound allocation is where the bulk of changes were made.

blast weapons may scatter out of range and still cause wounds.

In close combat: absolutely any model can be killed
In shooting: see the BRB FAQ, which absolutely alters the page 16 out of range rule