Sometimes ya just gotta get outdoors with your kids to shoot.
Posted on 03/05/2012 2:05:36 PM PST by Second Amendment First
For Vegas die-hards bored with the $750 tasting menu at Guy Savoy, the $250 Elton John tickets at Caesars or the $200,000 single-hand baccarat bet at the Bellagio, this city is serving up a new way to find high-priced thrills.
Machine Guns Vegas — an upscale, indoor shooting range complete with skimpily dressed, gun-toting hostesses — opened last week a half mile from the Strip, with an armory of weapons and a promise to fulfill the desires of anyone wanting to fire off an Uzi or a vintage Thompson submachine gun. With its provocative mix of violent fantasy (think blowing holes through an Osama bin Laden target with an AK-47) and sexual allure, it is the latest example of how the extravagances and excesses that have defined Las Vegas are moving beyond the gaming table.
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Only time I was in Las Vegas was about ten years ago, and the only thing I wanted to do was shoot a Thompson at The Gun Store. And I did.
Same here. Best thing about Vegas!
Shooting machine guns sounds fun but I would not be going there.
Shot the Tompson and then the M249SAW when I was there a few years ago. Still have the target I shot with the SAW. A Lot of fun.
Sometimes ya just gotta get outdoors with your kids to shoot.
I want to shoot a M203 again. Literally and really a blast.
The world’s favorite light infantry support machine gun the MG M249
Nope, I was thinking of his Big Brother the M240 in 308 my mistake.
FN MAG (Belgium) / M240 (USA)
The perfectly rational posts on this string so far i think miss the point of this story, which is that it reveals the Times’ view of (a) flyover country in general and (b) the barbarians who reside there and want to shoot automatic weapons, pay scantily clad women who walk around in tights and (c) would, if they could, drink while they were shooting. The people who’ve posted thus far have just commented on the weapons used — as if that were a reasonable discussion to have. It is, of course, but from the perspective of the New York Times and the vast majority of its readers, these comments only reveal how backward and benighted we all are.
Those grenade launchers are a real kick. Like a mule.
I’m most definitely up for one of these places (there’s like five or six now in Vegas, I think). I also love the fact that the writer correctly used the term magazine and not “clip” for the mags in pic 6.
The opening line made me laugh, though - “for Vegas die-hards bored with the $750 tasting menu at Guy Savoy.” I get that Vegas has become home to some really high-end restaurants, and if that’s where someone wants to spend their money, it ain’t no concern of mine. But I gotta tell ya, I rarely spend more than 10 bucks for a meal in Vegas. I’m there for the shows and the gambling, and I’m just as happy to fuel up with a plate of authentic Mexican food from Tacos Mexico as drop big money on Spagos or what not.
Do they still have that wind tunnel where you can fly?
There’s no place like Vegas, there’s no place like Vegas, there’s no...place...like...Vegas...
You couldn’t afford to shoot it
The second amendment says that I have a right to a gun. I want to be able to go to this place as often as I like and have the ACLU pay for it. Two can play that silly game Ms. Fluke.
I agree. Obama care should pay for all of my ammunition use. Shooting is good for my mental health, so ammo should be free under Obamacare.
Here is a true story about me, a machine gun, and an indoor range.... :)
Back in the 80’s you could rent a full auto .45 MAC-10 with a full 30 round clip at our local range for $20. It had a big suppressor on the end so you held the barrel down with your hand on it.
Never having fired one before, I figured that for $20 I would just hold the trigger and spray the heck out of the target....
Well, I pulled the trigger and in 3 1/2 seconds, burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp, that thing walked me back a few feet and I proceeded the shred the ceiling tiles. It looked like popcorn coming down... LOL!!!!! There were only two bullet holes in the man target down range.
I hear the owner yell “Son Of A Bi..ch!” and he came in screaming at me. He should of warned me about the recoil. Heck all the girls on TV shoot them with one hand.
Anyway, I was banned from the range after that. My buddies split a gut laughing at me, and I have to admit, it was rather funny..... ;)
Heck, there are a number of such ranges in the LV area, indoor and out. Fun shooting, BTW.
Excellent, jdsteel! Turn the tables on the left with a right defined in the Constitution. Free ammo/free weapons and I want all socialists to be taxed to the max to pay for my needs. BUMP! BUMP! & LOL! (I’ll be in Vegas tomorrow...I might have to check this place out)
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