You don't hear too many tourists coming to the United States to shoot firearms. But it is a fact according to the U.S. Travel/Trade, its in many of the wealthy Chinese tourists buckets of things to do in the U.S. Posted on 06/07/2017 4:50:23 AM PDT by w1n1
You don't hear too many tourists coming to the United States to shoot firearms. But it is a fact according to the U.S. Travel/Trade, its in many of the wealthy Chinese tourists buckets of things to do in the U.S.
In China, you cannot own a firearm, air rifle or even a toy gun. Having a toy gun can land you some jail time. Which obviously has created an odd tourism opportunity here.
Enter Dickson Wong, who is a marksman with a deep interest in firearms. He arranges tours for groups of chinese tourists who are gun enthusiasts to travel to DeSoto County, FLordia for a shooting outing.
Wong gives chinese tourists a chance to experience "real gun culture" here in the U.S., otherwise impossible to do in China. Gun tourism is a growing business in the U.S. because of lax laws regulating firearms compared to other countries. See the rest of the real "gun culture" story here.
Fixed it.
On the streets of Honolulu there were flier peddlers for Gun Ranges coxing the tourists to "come shoot real guns! real ammo!"
When I walked by they ignored me, most likely because they knew I was an American and had access to my own guns and ammo.
They were correct! I looked at the prices of some of them while I was there and later online. Talk about prices gouging, those Gun Ranges in Hawaii and Guam make an absolute MINT off Asian Tourists.
Gun Tourism is big.
Met some Brits on my last trip to AK. They had a cabin across from ours. After beer one night, we took them out shooting the next day. They had a blast.
Chicago Bang Bang!
Maybe some of these Chinese are the type of people we should welcome as immigrants. (As well as the 60,000 former handgun owners who were required to turn in their guns in England in the late 1990s)
Best way to experience gun culture is to attend a medium to large sized gun show.
Rub elbows with the folks.
See all the firearms available for every situation.
Talk to that old geezer in the wheelchair about his favorite re-load recipe for .45-70.
Listen to the chatter around you.
That’s the gun culture. It’s also a little slice of America.
The word "lax" has a totally unambiguous meaning that is not moderated by the words "compared to." The meaning is "not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful."
If the writer and editor(s) were not liberal pretenders to the title of their website they would have reflexively rejected the words "lax laws" and have thought and written something like "our Constitutionally limited laws." If the owner(s) of the website is/are not equally illegitimate, those people would be fired.
My wife is a generation zero lady from the PRC. She naturalized years ago and is so proud to to a citizen here that she can be obnoxious at times. She has accumulated a Ruger Mark III, Ruger Mini-14, Beretta 92FS, and a Kimber .45 ACP with Crimson Trace. She shoots surprisingly well. The Kimber is her favorite.
Through tourism we can evangelize oppressed peoples in the glories of responsible gun ownership.
I took some Romanian friends of mine to my local range a few years ago. Like your Brit friends, they absolutely loved it. Had a great time!
Reminds me of when the news media, after years of saying handguns were bad and rifles good, decided to attack rifles.
Handgun Control Inc got a number of those evil A-s-s-s-ault Rifles, laid them on the pavement and had a steam roller roll over them.
They found rifles did not die easily! They had to go over, and over, and over.
I decided that if they were that hard to kill, I WANTED ONE!
While working at Yuma Proving Ground, I arranged to take dozens of Japanese out for shooting experiences.
I had them shoot about a dozen different rifles and a dozen different pistols. They loved it.
I considered it a value added. Just charged them for the ammo.
I have taken a couple of exchange students shooting they have really like it.
Some one with a little simple training has a huge advantage over some one that does not.
Just knowing how to load, remove a magazine take the safety off is huge.
One just needs to read about the Warsaw ghetto up raising and how the fighters had to learn how to load and unload a revolver to understand this.
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