Posted on 12/08/2024 5:05:41 AM PST by DFG
The debate over whether “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie might never be settled, but for those who think it is, a Cody gun range is offering customers a chance to fire the film’s iconic weapons this holiday season.
You just won’t be able to do it while wearing a tank top and screaming with bloodied bare feet, like the movie’s hero John McClane, played by Bruce Willis.
‘Now I Have A Machine Gun’
For its Die Hard Christmas Special, Cody Firearms Experience offers customers a dose of holiday cheer.
For $60, shooters can run a full magazine of ammunition through each of the guns McClane used to take out a team of ultra-elite bad guys. That includes a Beretta 92 semiautomatic pistol and a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun.
“The MP5 is full-auto,” Cody Firearms Experience General Manager Paul Brock told Cowboy State Daily.
That’s reflective of one of the movie’s most iconic lines, via a note McClane leaves scrawled on the shirt of one of his slain foes for the rest of the villains to read:
“Now I have a machine gun. Ho-Ho-Ho.”
It’s ‘Absolutely’ A Christmas Movie When "Die Hard" was released in 1988, it launched Willis in the lead role as McClane to superstardom.
And since it’s set during the Christmas season, and frequently watched by fans during the holidays, it’s widely regarded as a Christmas movie.
Detractors of that idea say that an action movie rife with bloody gunfights, profanity and explosions can’t be a Christmas movie simply because it’s set during the holidays. They argue there's nothing Christmas about the main themes of the film.
Brock said the question over whether "Die Hard" is, in fact, a Christmas movie is what spawned the idea of the Christmas special at Cody Firearms Experience.
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I fired an 1864 ten-barreled .58 caliber hand cranked Gatling gun at that range in September, 2023.
[That includes a Beretta 92 semiautomatic pistol and a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun.]
I had my own 92F for almost 40 years. No H&K, though.
What no P7? AUG?
My son shot it that spring.
Fun trip
Went to the Cowboy Church and much more.
They can do better: how about an office space, where “villains”
“Schieße den Fenster!” (shoot the glass) and you as McClain have to shoot your way out, among other scenarios from the film?
Hahahaha...!
Had? Did you give it up?
I see a semi auto 9mm HK at the local sportsman warehouse store. Bit pricey at 3,000 dollars.
Long story but I’ll just say if you use a small gun safe be sure to screw it down. Especially if your “handyman” knows where it is. That’s all I can say about it right now. Homeowners insurance took care of it.
Oh man, sorry that happened to you.
He knew I was in the hospital at the time, too. Told my girlfriend he was going to take the a/c out of the window in the bedroom.
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