Here's my ninth offering in Examiner.com's New Year's resolution special project.
This one is fun:
I will shoot a machine gun.
Many gun owners never have, and have ended up enjoying the hell out of the experience. That's elder feral son Uday* in the accompanying photo, blasting away at Knob Creek under the generous and patient tutelage of Len Savage. And that's an important caveat--make sure someone who knows what they are doing is there to teach and supervise.
Yeah, it can be expensive, but so are a lot of things that are fun.
Where can you do this? How much will it cost?
Ask your gun owner friends. Do some internet research. If you can arrange it, I suggest you consider this a resolution worth making and keeping.
* No, of course that's not his real name.
Suggested resolutions posted to date:
New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Read Second Amendment Books
Comments
YES! YES! OH GOD YES!!
A few gun shops/gun ranges near my Father, have certain machine guns for supervised rental.
I'd love to shoot a Chicago Typewriter.
I haven't done that in years. It's soooo much fun.
Having fired uncounted numbers of rounds, automatically, from a wide variety of MGs, it don't hold much allure. I do have however, 3 teenaged sons who would love to do it, not to mention 40 or 50 of their friends, my grandaughters, etc. I'll get right on that, boss, and let the flashbacks be damned. III
Full auto MP5 rental at a local indoor range...$50 worth of ammo spent in less than 15 minutes...LET'S ROCK!!
As a suggestion for young shooters, novices or the ladies, for initiation into hand-held / shoulder-fired F/A S/F find someone with a Sten, Swedish K, M2 Carbine or an MP5.
First go-round, load a mag with no more than 10 rounds to let them get a feel for it and shadow ‘em as closely as if you were doing the shooting yourself, for reasons that should be obvious.
FYI
J. Authur Ciener offers a .22cal conversion for the M16/AR15 that’s as simple as it gets to install and useful for the beginner to get a feel for an M16.( Be advised though, keep the bolt well lubed, no big deal for a .22 but it will fire out of battery. )The kit's fun in a standard AR15 too and fairly accurate up close.
BTW, if you find an outdoor shoot with minimal target restrictions, take that old virus-infected/spyware-filled, headache-causing computer with you and stick it out there at about 50m or so.
The satisfaction level of making the final data arrangement with an MG or subgun truly has few equals.
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