Posted on 12/19/2014 8:25:03 PM PST by shove_it
People cannot bring own guns to attraction
KISSIMMEE, Fla. —A new tourist attraction promises to give people as young as 13 years old the chance to fire fully automatic weapons.
Outside the new attraction, you can hear the unmistakable rat-a-tat-tat of machine guns inside. The automatic weapons are powerful and firing them is intense, but owners are hoping Orlando tourists will want to try the unique experience.
"We see this as attractive to someone who might want to go bungee jumping -- adrenaline rush experience," said Bruce Nierenberg, general manager of Machine Gun America Orlando. "There are a lot of single parents who might be looking for something to do with their kids as a bonding experience, weekend excursion, that type of thing."
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(Excerpt) Read more at wesh.com ...
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FTA:
The general manager of Machine Gun America Orlando said strict safety measures are in place to handle and secure the weapons.
“It’s not a gun range. You can’t bring your own weapon here. It’s a very controlled environment,” Nierenberg said. “Safety is number one and two on the list and number three, number four is have a good time.”
Very expensive ammo burn at 500-800rpm(?)
Do they have a Ma Deuce?
I would love to do this, and I haven’t been a child in decades.
I’m offened. I’ll sue
When I was in Marine Corps basic we were at Camp Pendleton for marksmanship and infantry training. One evening our series (four platoons totaling about 240 recruits) was issued a box of tracers. The plan was to have all of us fire at a hill in the distance, so that all the tracers converged onto one point. Each platoon had three or four recruits selected to fire full auto and they were given extra rounds. I really wanted to fire full, but wasn’t selected. So I did the next best thing. The sun had already set and we each went to the ammo truck to get our box of tracers, but I kept getting back into line and got a whole bunch of boxes. Then I borrowed magazines from the other recruits and loaded them up. After all 240 of us were lined up and the order to commence fire was given, I unloaded all those magazines on full auto. What a blast! And the Drill Instructors never knew. To the guy handing out ammo, I was just another bald headed recruit in green utilities and the Drill Instructors couldn’t possibly keep track of things with 240 M-16s going off in the dark.
Nothin new
8-year old Kids in our family since 1644 know how to hit an apple off a tree by its stem at 50 yards.
EVEN THE BRITISH IN 1794 ATTEST TO THE EXERCISE AND PRACTICE OF THE RIGHT
TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS BY AMERICAN KIDS PRIOR TO, DURING AND AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1775 “Events which served to shew [sic] that if the Americans were yet
unacquainted with military discipline they were not destitute of either
courage or conduct but knew well and dared to avail themselves of such
advantages as they possessed. The people of the colonies are accustomed
to the use of fire arms from their earliest youth and are in general good
marksmen. Such men placed in a house behind a wall or amongst trees are
capable of doing as much execution as regular soldiers. And to these
advantages which they possessed during the greatest part of the nineteenth
of April we may attribute the inconsiderable loss sustained by them compared
with that of our detachments.” Stedman,p.120
.” Stedman,p.120 “The History of the Origin, Progress, and
Termination of the American War,” Stedman, C. 1794, Volume 1]
[This is confirmed by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8]
Viz:: “The terms of the Constitution he need not refer to; and the amendment now under discussion was simply an AFFIRMANCE OF A POWER,-THAT THE RIGHT OF A PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Who fought the Battles, of Lexington,Bunker Hill and Saratoga?
...Who saved Baltimore? ... Who obtained the victory at New Orleans?
These militia, trained and disciplined in their own houses; not practised in the field, but BRINGING THEIR GUNS WHICH THEY WERE TAUGHT TO USE WHEN CHILDREN..”p.111, p.168 are sourced from “Proceedings and Debates of the
Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”, Vol. 4, by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8
IPSWICH, MASS where my family is from 1644:
“1645 -Youth from ten to sixteen years are to be
exercised with small guns, half-pikes, bows and arrows.”
‘History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton’ By Joseph Barlow Felt, p141
1648 -”In every company some under-officer shall be
appointed by the captain “to exercise such children...”
‘History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton’ By Joseph Barlow Felt, p141
In honor of fung grabbers, it should have been built in Kissimmyass.
fung grabbers = gun grabbers (arghh)
The fung grabber boys, they came for Machine Gun,
Took the poor boy away.
Stuck him in a hole in the Leavenworth prison
Where he lived until his dying day—
Watch out Machine Gun,
Don’t let ‘em grab your fung ...
:^]
Saw this on the DUmmy site. They’re having a hissy fit. It was great :).
Just stay the heck away from the little girl with the Uzi
We did a similar exercise in Army basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood 53 years ago. Though not anywhere near the show you guys put on, we were firing .30 cal tracers from M1 Garand semi-auto rifles on a firing line of about 100 trainees to demonstrate the firepower of an infantry company at night. We were set up with each guy having a field of fire staked out and we were each issued several clips of ammo. NCOs were also setup at both ends of the line with .50 cal water cooled machine guns raking the target area with tracers. We thought it was pretty awesome back then. It looked like nothing would survive that wall of lead. Little did we know.
I will give up my fung when they pry it from... er, never mind.
I offend feel the same way!
:-)
$99 might be the price for the "experience" with the double-barreled coach gun. (They also have a Ruger 10/22 and S&W .22 pistol listed.)
With the exception of the few full autos and a pistol with a suppressor, the firearms they advertise look like ones that any (non-prohibited) Florida resident could buy at the local WalMart. Their target market might be foreign tourists and tourists from the 8-10 rabidly anti 2nd Amendment US states.
This is probably a good thing for familiarizing people who are completely unfamiliar with firearms. It does seem to be a little expensive, though.
And we’ll have fung fung fung
‘til her Daddy grabs her surround being hardtop
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