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I wanna shoot an m249 :(
Hi this is Sgt Itsdanaozideshihou, why don't you give me a call at 867-5309 and we can discuss letting you shoot an M249 at no cost to you!
Jenny is a Fed thirst trap
But Jenny’s got the gun….
Fun to shoot, terrible to clean.
First time I shot one, I was about 30 rounds in before I realized I didn't put my ear plugs in. Whoops 🤷🏻♂️
I've seen this exact comment somewhere
I'm sure I'm not the first person to have it happen. Surprisingly it didn't hurt or damage my ears, I think.
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What?
Don't go, irs just some guy with a glock with a switch
ATF should be a convenience store, not a federal agency
It is. Well, there's also an ATF convenience store.
https://atfcstore.com/
https://old.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/ayxrqv/today_moa_targets_became_a_real_life_meme_atf/
Nothing better than opening a business’s website and immediately being met by a claymore roomba.
“Can I… have the machine gun?”
Sorry we ran out, come back tomorrow
A semi auto version of the m249, is 10k :/
Yes, if you live in Europe, but in America only if you own a gas station apperently 🤷🏻♂️
Where is this gas station? Always looking for a new favorite stop. This may be it, no matter the price of gas. Lol
One of the commenters in the original post said it's the Last Stop Travel Center in White Hills, Arizona
I've been to Arizona a handful of times. Ilk have to keep this in mind next time. Idk if I've been in or near white hills.
Interesting that it's next to a gas station. I'm surprised they're allowed to do this.
Why? If it's a gas station, there is already an established business / proper zoning [if relevant] / business licenses.
One of my favorite gun shops used to be a civil engineer's office....he got his 01 FFL and sold a fair amount of equipment to buddies and acquaintances.
I thought with how ranges try to mitigate the risk of fire, it'd be too much risk to be near a gas station. I guess I assumed it was an outdoor range for some reason.
He must not be able to comprehend, non-American. 🤣
Why? Go next door and shoot at a mountain.
There’s another sign for shooting machine guns at the Big Lake Trading Post in Page, Arizona.
There’s a place like this in Page, AZ. I remember seeing signs around town when I went to visit antelope canyon and horseshoe bend.
Aren't machine guns legal in some European nations?
Several, and sound suppressors are encouraged in several as well.
Silencers are often considered safety items in those countries, which makes buying them so much easier.
Suppressors are considered safety items in the USA, too. You're required to have one on an internal combustion vehicle on public roads, with very few exceptions.
The US can’t comprehend such common sense
Yes 100%. OP didn’t quite think his comment through.
This kind of op shows when OP isn’t thinking at all.
Sort of yeah, you need to get a special license (seperate from your normal license). The difficulty of which depends on the country but where I live it's not that hard, but there are a few countries where it's even easier. But when you have it they can be quite cheap (i have seen machineguns for as low as 150 euros.,)
Getting Section 5 authority is an utter pain in the arse
You have to send all this directly to the Home Office:
Authority holder, business name, and Company House number
What you're going to use the weapons/ammunition for
Why you need said weapons/ammunition (including a full business plan for new applicants)
You may also have to include more, including but not limited to:
Import license
Types & quantities of weapons/ammunition
Storage details (including address of premises)
Personal details & contact details of company officers & authority holders
You also have to pay roughly £800 ($1000) for a first-time application, then another £750 ($940) every 3 years to renew (plus extra fees if you want to change anything about the authority) On the bright side, the Authority allows you to make, buy, and sell prohibited & non-prohibited weapons & ammunition
You also get the local armed response unit on speed-dial to the premises storing the items, which can be quite the surprise to chavs who decide to try & break into a warehouse only to be swiftly faced with policemen carrying submachineguns
A machinegun conversion, assuming you already have the self-loading weapon and the authority to hold machineguns, can be as cheap as a few pence of PLA
Where I live it's a lot easier. There are other ways, but this is the one I used, you set up a company which provides trainings. You buy the machineguns as company property. Only thing is that you need to provide the occasional "training" but enough people like to shoot machineguns so you charge them a bit of money for a range sessions and that's it. You don't even need to make a profit, you can shoot then whenever you want as a hobby and even make some money on the side for it.
I have a normal day job next to it.
Many citizens of the USA seem to be under the impression that we are the freest free nation to ever free.
I never said rhat. But I've seen video to gun stores in Austria.
That hasn't been the case in a long time.
We are one of many nations that has freedoms.
Yes. Yemen and France.
I mean, as an American I can't comprehend this.
Civilians should be able to own and shoot MGs without regulation. Having to rely on private businesses to shoot an M249 is a tragedy.
If it has a sushi bar attached w a real Japanese man running it , it’s probably heaven. . . Not just a gas station.
So sushi and shooting select fire weapons and some premium for your bike how much better can it get
drop a pin
The average Californian mind cannot comprehend this
I’d do it again for fun, but don’t make it my job to carry the damn thing everywhere and also clean it
Yeah uhm I think you don't know what you are talking about..
Ok, so, I'll be retiring to Poland, then!
Having that things charging handle constantly dig into me caused me to really dislike the ol saw.
I misread the subreddit as mildlyinfuriating and almost threw a fit in the comments lmfao
Pretty sure they are familiar with people making money from a government granted exclusive abilities.
I have such fond memories of shooting the Ma Deuce at Battlefield: Vegas... May be the greatest way I've ever spent a few hundred bucks in a few seconds :)
I mean to me this is brilliant, anti-theft that pays out and spreads competency? Adding a new name to my list of favorite small business owners(metaphorically).
This might deter some robbers but encourage others.
welcome to america. guns are part if our religion. For the Emperor!
well it is true, it is only mildly interesting.
Lol we stopped by that gas station on the way back from Las Vegas.
I didn't ask but was totally tempted to, nothing about that gas station says or indicates they have a FFL lol
There are places in Europe you can pay to shoot machine guns.
*Eastern Europeans have entered the chat
Over in the UK they’re debating whether or not they should allow knives to be sold to average citizens. It’s looneyville over there.
That is because most of western europen has been indoctrinated into that thinking. Eastern europe they have a big bully to their east and think differently. Different strokes for different folks.
Or perhaps Americans have been indoctrinated into thinking they need them?
I jest, we have loads of guns here, but keep it quiet.
It is not. Just look at all countries that have the hardest gun laws. Top 2 is china and russia. That tells you plenty.
I can't imagine anything more American than walking into a gas station and saying, "Yes, I'm here to inquire about the machine guns."
No we can. It's not that hard, it's even easier to get legal machineguns here then in the states so ...
I have no issues but my god do I hate when my gun range that i'm a member at has literally 8 year olds firing fully automatic on the pistol range...........they have policies about not allowing children to do this but i've seen family/ friends kids of range officers being allowed to.......They are standing and supporting but still....fuck that shit. I've stood behind an I beam while some 85Lbs wet shoots a gun looking like he's running a 100lb jackhammer is happening. This isn't some hillbilly range either.........
that's nuts. I probably wouldn't be a member of that range after that.
At 8, i was zeroing in my .22 marlin on a ranch with my grandfather. Not mag dumping a switch at a range.
This was a real deal German ww2 MP40.....the group had full auto 762/308 rifles as well. No idea if they let the fucking kid shoot those because I left.
Depends on how the children are taught how to shoot. I seen kids shoot a 500 magnum before. It was always chambered with a single round between each shot. But they shot it, and they handled it well.
I seen big men flinch more with a 500 magnum than those kids.
Depends on the child shooting. Full auto fire is easy to handle though, if you know what your doing, has nothing to do with your weight. Anyone can handle a full auto. Is everyone going to hit the target? No. But everyone can control a full auto with the proper technique.
It's not necessarily their weight that can quickly become an issue of lethal consequence. It's moreso their size and depending on the specific kid/situation their relative inability to think/react under stress and take their fingers/hands of the controls/trigger/etcetera so a "runaway" gun, either due to malfunction on the weapons end, or, due to, oftentimes, a high fire-rate and the tendency to panic and "freeze up" so to speak (basically similar to how people panic and accidentally get into an even worse car wreck due to their body freezing or locking up and them flooring it instead of taking their foot off the pedal or pressing the brakes instead) when the weapon gets away from them and either "walks" or shoots up in the air sending shots over the berm or "walking" out sideways or even straight back, killing the shooter, unfortunately. This typically is only a major problem for either high RPM weapons like MAC-10's/11's, for example, and/or higher-recoil rifles/guns in general like an AK-47 or anything in .308 or something, a kid shouldn't really have a huge issue or risk of this happening with something like a Grease Gun or a full-size Uzi with a stock and its factory slower/modest fire-rate of about 600rpm if I remember correctly (some Uzi's have buffers or inserts in the receiver that increases the rate of fire, and Mini & Micro Uzi's are a completely different story in terms of their safety profile due their much smaller size and much higher rate of fire).
Pictures like this make me wish I was born an american, but unfortunately I was born a european :(
There's about 20 different places in Vegas that rent machine guns. Bring lots of $$$
So, kinda like strippers, but better?
Never shot a full auto.. locked to semi only 😭
breh, just google more.
I swear this place must be the one we drove past in Arizona a couple weeks ago, heading from the Grand Canyon back to Vegas.
Surely there couldn't be multiple such places (although I want there to be).
Vegas?
Hahah I’ve been here, very fun!
The european mind yearns for the machine gun
I went and looked at the place on google earth. looks pretty legit has some firing lanes and berms. Would for sure stop if I was there.
I am European and this ad would definitely work on me.
Surprising to see automatic weapons still.
In what city is that gas station in? Asking for a friend
How do they legally transfer the firearm to the nonresident alien so the nonresident alien can possess and shoot the machinegun legally?
as a european, hell yeah
Pretty sure that is the place just south of Hoover Dam in AZ where that range officer got put down by a little girl after putting a full auto MAC into her hands.
Proof that you can't outlaw stupidity
I have shot full auto (MP5). I own guns. But in my state they have banned the good ones (future purchases, no more high capacity magazines to be sold or transfered....no more sale of any modern sporting rifles..ie no more sem8 auto rifles for sale) and no full auto. So soon, my state will be in the same boat as Europeans.
Might have to move in the future and take my guns with me.
But you can go to other states to buy ammo and magazines, right?
I'm assuming you're in Illinois, so WI, IN, MO, IA are all still free states
Different state. I can still buy ammo. I can ccw carry still. The bans finally happened here (can still own what I had... but can't buy more of the fun guns).
Sucks, though.
Europe will criticize us for this but not Africa or the Middle East.
I'm European, I can definately comprehend the need to try a machinegun