Posted on 06/11/2004 7:36:54 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Trigger happy
ALEX MASSIE
THE Israelis don’t bother with the safety catch. They use duct tape to keep it turned off. But it’s a good idea for you to use it." I nod in agreement as Bob Hurley carefully explains how to handle an Uzi 9mm automatic submachine gun without killing myself. Or him, for that matter.
I don’t know if you’ve ever fired an Uzi, but it’s the gun made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator. The Terminator didn’t bother with the safety catch either, but there are moments for emulating Hollywood stars - smoking like Humphrey Bogart, for instance - and there are times when it’s wiser not to.
Despite that, the Uzi is a gun your mother could handle. It’s comfortable, remarkably light and alarmingly easy to use, and what it lacks in pinpoint accuracy it makes up for in rate of fire. I discover this while trotting through the woods of rural Kentucky, spraying "enemy" targets with machine-gun fire. It is, I suppose, like playing paintball, except with several magazines of live ammunition - and much more fun. I can see why the Israelis like the gun.
"Watch out, there’s an enemy tank on your right," whispers Bob. "Go for the commander first."
A quick burst on the trigger and he is dealt with, prompting Bob to slap me on the back and urge me to press on to the next target. "That’s good shooting, but you need to move faster."
I am at the Knob Creek gun range in Bullitt County, Kentucky, at what bills itself as the nation’s largest machine and military gun festival. In truth, the Uzi is about as meek and mild a gun as there is on display. For a mere 20, gun enthusiasts can take a "jungle walk" to blast away at a series of steel targets. Best of all is a sustained burst of fire across the creek to "sweep" half a dozen enemy targets. "Go on, give ’em hell," Bob tells me. "Don’t hold back."
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My son tries to set up shop at Knob Creek every year. He specializes in class 3, federally registered 'things'.
Alarmingly? Liberals. I swear I will never understand them.
Actually, the UZI first came to real public attention when Reagan's Secret Service agents pulled them out while handling the assassination attempt. And correct me if I'm wrong, but the UZI played only a very minor role in T1 (he sees it in the gun shop, but he chooses a different weapon).
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The first time I saw an UZI in the hands of the Secret Sevice was when Spiro Agnew went to SE Asia back in the late 1960's.
The Terminator used a Uzi in the night club then went with the Armalite-180 (Not the American-180, a .22 rimfire full auto rifle) and shotgun.
I'm curious- was he born a p@@sy, or did he need to take classes?
"An AK-47 can be legally sold so long as its firing mechanism has been adjusted. It is easy to purchase the missing parts and reconfigure the gun yourself" - what a pile of clinton.
Last time I looked, to purchase the parts was not easy - a lot of paperwork involved, and "reconfiguring" is a federal offense (10000$ + time in the cooler). What is the ignoramus talking about?
And correct me if I'm wrong, but the UZI played only a very minor role in T1.
That was True Lies, and it was a MAC-10, not an UZI.
Where's the story about the whisky?
That was True Lies, and it was a MAC-10, not an UZI.
Funny I never noticed this while I was there in April. Guess I am just not sensitive enough. In my obvious confusion, I mistook it for an air of Liberty.
Even a blanket prohibition, such as the ban on handguns in Washington DC, can be of limited use. Washington has the highest murder rate of any city in the country
Gee, I wonder if there might be a connection between disarmed victims and a sky-high murder rate?
"Democrats want to take my guns away"
Well, he finally gets around to at least a bit of the truth. But I'm sure it was an accident.
Smoking will kill you, or at least damage your health, no matter how you do it. Not true of Uzi shooting, which as the author showed, can be done quite safely.
No American kid, excepting a very few northeastern bluebloods perhaps, would call his mother "mummny". The rest of the quotes are probably about as accurate, and the non-quoted inferances even less so.
Once a machine gun, always a machine gun, is the BATFE rule. Thus an legally sold semiautomatic AK-47 clone cannot be "reconfigured" to full auto. It could be converted, but that would be federal felony. Plus if the gun was "readily convertible" to full auto, it too would be considered a machine gun, subject to all the NFA rules and taxes. Thus any produced after 1986 could be sold at all, under the provision of the Gun Owners Protection Act.
Yes there is, but it's not among those folks at the Knob Creek shoot, or at my local gun range for that matter. It's concentrated in particular ethnic groups, without which the US murder rate would be considerably lower than that of the UK.
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