I appreciate the second amendment, but this?

[bassrique]

Light up the night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd0ppORwBog

Originally Posted by uploaders vid description

This event is the culmination of THE BEST GUN SHOW you could ever attend. You are viewing the first 6 1/2 minutes of the Knob Creek Machine Gun Night Shoot. Fully automatic weapons including the most modern M16 variations, AK47, .50 BMG, minigun, and classics from every major military conflict of the past century. Plus a few flares! Targets included propane tanks, automobiles, appliances, and large drums of fuel. This "outburst" ran for about 10 minutes, but the intensity had pretty much subsided at the 7 minute mark. Several shooters either did not reload, and/or they were no longer shooting tracers and incendiary ammo. The main range where the video was filmed is approximately 350-400 yards in length, and has a huge hill as a backstop. Due to the dry ground conditions and volume of smoke, you will notice the view becoming much more cloudy beginning around the 2:00 mark.

Originally Posted by more

This event is held twice each year, in April and October. The October 2010 event was the first I had ever attended, and I was immensely impressed. VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE......attendees for these events make a significant contribution to the local economy; food, hotels, fuel, products, etc. Such is the nature of the 2nd Amendment in action.

[Deluge Of Sound]

If something's worth doing, its worth doing right.

[elgecko]

Isn't there supposed to be an ammo shortage happening?

[Bongolation]

Relax. These weapons are tremendously licensed, taxed and regulated by the BATF, and NV is one of the few states that permit their ownership even then.

Believe me, these bubbas are paying big dough for their fun and Uncle Obama knows where they live. All is well...if you don't wander in downrange, I guess.

[jonathan_matos5]

what? are you telling me that you've never just wanted to shoot something and watch it explode? this is a healthy outlet of such otherwise destructive tendencies.

[SnakeKappele]

Looked like a lot of fun to me.

[Bongolation]

I just saw lots of money being noisily incinerated.

Winged dollar signs flying heavenward like a cave full of bats at sundown.

[MEKer]

Absolute great fun!! And for many of the same reasons people like to watch building demolitions, demo derbies, landslides, etc. You should have seen a New Years Eve in Vietnam! THAT was cool!

[bassrique]

Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5

what? are you telling me that you've never just wanted to shoot something and watch it explode? this is a healthy outlet of such otherwise destructive tendencies.

OK, but I'll do it alone and in seclusion. Maybe if I was familiar with that group of people and knew that there wasn't one jackass in the bunch I'd participate.

[MEKer]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

I just saw lots of money being noisily incinerated.

Winged dollar signs flying heavenward like a cave full of bats at sundown.

THEY paid for it------no sweat off anyone.

[bassrique]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

I just saw lots of money being noisily incinerated.

Winged dollar signs flying heavenward like a cave full of bats at sundown.

Hehehe

The money was the first thing I thought of too.


I wonder what our European friends think of this?

[Bongolation]

Originally Posted by bassrique

Maybe if I was familiar with that group of people and knew that there wasn't one jackass in the bunch I'd participate.

What are the odds?

Haw!

[NateS]

that looks soooo awesome. I'd love to be able to see that in person. i don't even really like guns (except for in video games)

[Muaguana]

Not gonna lie... that was pretty sweet.

Originally Posted by MEKer

You should have seen a New Years Eve in Vietnam! THAT was cool!

Wait, hold up; you lost me at the "wrecked kitchen appliances and cars = living, breathing human beings" part...

[Simo98]

This is the true purpose of firearms, blowing **** up

[bassybill]

VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE......attendees for these events make a significant contribution to the local economy; food, hotels, fuel, products, etc. Such is the nature of the 2nd Amendment in action.

ROFLMAO!!

Also... "Knob Creek" [snicker]

[andruca]

Originally Posted by bassrique

Hehehe

The money was the first thing I thought of too.


I wonder what our European friends think of this?

I love guns as much as I love cars (just an example) for the amount of engineering put into the design and construction of both. Not really interested in neither of them as the object of certain rituals. I just have to mention that this kind of "show" would be illegal anywhere in Europe, just as it is illegal for anyone to street race (almost anywhere in the world). Anyway, judging a certain approach to guns and its motives/pros/cons from the other side of the ocean (knowing ZERO of your society apart from cliches) would be too jerky and light on my side. I'm also not discussing "legal" or "illegal" as those still mean shite without the supreme rule of common sense/fairness/taste.

[fractiouslowend]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

I just saw lots of money being noisily incinerated.

Winged dollar signs flying heavenward like a cave full of bats at sundown.

compared to the US military budget, this would be a teardrop in a million oceans

[Komakino]

Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5

what? are you telling me that you've never just wanted to shoot something and watch it explode? this is a healthy outlet of such otherwise destructive tendencies.

Pah, you yanks and your love of guns. Over here we just stab each other to release our destructive tendencies. With spoons.

[zenrad]

Looks like fun to me.

As for being woried about the guy standing next to you...I think your odds of standing next to a homocidal maniac are better on the subway in NYC rather than at a range like that.