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Yippie-Ki-Yay! Cody Gun Range Offers Holiday “Die Hard” Experience
Cowboy State Daily ^ | 12/07/2024 | Mark Heinz

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: banglist; diehard; wyoming

1 posted on 12/08/2024 5:05:41 AM PST by DFG
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2 posted on 12/08/2024 6:09:00 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: DFG

I fired an 1864 ten-barreled .58 caliber hand cranked Gatling gun at that range in September, 2023.


3 posted on 12/08/2024 6:16:00 AM PST by GingisK
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[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.


4 posted on 12/08/2024 6:21:47 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DFG

What no P7? AUG?


5 posted on 12/08/2024 6:34:42 AM PST by CA_soon_gone
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To: GingisK

My son shot it that spring.
Fun trip
Went to the Cowboy Church and much more.


6 posted on 12/08/2024 8:59:15 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships)
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To: rlmorel


Or until Holly punches the reporter.
7 posted on 12/08/2024 9:01:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG

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?


8 posted on 12/08/2024 9:59:45 AM PST by montag813
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To: dfwgator

Hahahaha...!


9 posted on 12/08/2024 12:36:50 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Larry Lucido

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.


10 posted on 12/08/2024 12:47:08 PM PST by Redcitizen
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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.


11 posted on 12/08/2024 1:44:26 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Oh man, sorry that happened to you.


12 posted on 12/08/2024 2:35:48 PM PST by Redcitizen
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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.


13 posted on 12/08/2024 3:16:10 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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