- Lissa has video and pics of the day's events. Look for my busted 1911 and "tactical pigtails"...
- JD has a good shot of me wheeling the cannon into position for the opening shot. I kept joking that I was going to use it for a CCW piece...
- TOTWTYTR makes note of some of the hardware present and also the safe atmosphere. I was the official Range Officer present, and I take safety very seriously. The only injury suffered the entire day was unrelated to firearms entirely.
TOTWTYTR also makes a point I'd like to expand a little on:
Readers should note that we had a large number of people, with a larger number of firearm, some evil, banned in MA "assault rifles" and no one went crazy. Our range rules were simple, the range was well run, as much as it needed to be, but Range Officer JayG. Everyone followed the Four Rules of Gun Safety and nothing bad happened.
This.
We had close to thirty people present for this shoot. There were dozens of guns there, well over 100 I would guess. Thousands if not tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. Machine guns. Suppressed handguns. Suppressed rifles. "Sniper" rifles. Shotguns. Large caliber handguns. Large capacity pistols. "Saturday night specials". Short barreled shotguns. A recoilless rifle, for cryin' out loud! And yet the one injury was caused by a simple nail. No one got shot, no one was threatened, not a single shot was fired in anger. A whole bunch of people sent a whole bunch of lead downrange and had fun.
High-capacity magazines didn't hurt anyone. "Assault weapons" didn't hurt anyone. "Saturday night specials" didn't hurt anyone. Sniper rifles didn't hurt anyone. Thousands of rounds of ammunition didn't hurt anyone (well, except for my back...) Why, it's almost like the Brady Campaign and VPC Center and HCI and all the other anti-gun groups have been lying to us all along, and it's *NOT* the guns that are the problem here - it's the human beings that pick up said guns and misuse them that's the problem here. Since there were no miscreants of that ilk present, everything was fine and dandy.
Thank you, once again, to everyone that came to the shoot for a wonderful and safe time.
That is all.
8 comments:
"Why, it's almost like the Brady Campaign and VPC Center and HCI and all the other anti-gun groups have been lying to us all along, and it's *NOT* the guns that are the problem here - it's the human beings that pick up said guns and misuse them that's the problem here."
QOTD material - Thank You!
Glad your 1911 recovered okay, sir. And thanks SO MUCH for organizing this :)
Jay many thanks for making it all happen, and of course to Mr and Mrs Doubletrouble for their generous hospitality! You have a bright future as a community organizer, who knows where it could lead?
Lots of guns to clean, but a great way to get them dirty. It was great to see all of you folks, let's get together again soon.
You were very lucky to make it out alive.
Clearly, we need to ban nails.
Libertyman, the base of my thumb is still sore from your 590... :)
For some reason, my left shoulder is still sore. I'm not sure what I did, but I shouldn'ta done it!
Despite that, and being dog tired at work, it was a terrific time.
I missed this year's nail mishap, but saw last year's. Clearly, we need common sense nail control laws to stop the carnage at the sooper seekrit range location.
That there was a deadly assault nail. And there were two of them in the board - we need to get rid of high-capacity boards while we're at it. There was a second board right next to it, full of more nails. If we had one-board-a-month laws, none of this would have happened.
... Except I saw Sumdood PUT that board down there. Mookie told him to.
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