How did you spend your weekend? Was it more exciting than the one had by the estinated 17,000 people that flooded West Point, Kentucky near Fort Knox for three days of shooting machine guns? If you couldn’t make it, Reuters attended for you:
Machine gun shoots like Knob Creek – and this weekend’s competing Big Sandy shoot in Arizona – offer enthusiasts a rare opportunity to get their hands on fully automatic weapons, which can be difficult to buy under federal laws, and to fire a variety of them.
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Inside the gates of the Knob Creek Shoot, gun dealers mingled with Tea Party activists and sport shooters. Knives, ammunition, all types of guns and accessories, and bumper stickers were on sale from about 225 vendors.
There were military insignias, tri-cornered hats and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags. At least one booth sold flags and banners with swastikas, and uniformed paramilitary groups also displayed signs bearing the Nazi symbol.
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Admission for adults was $10. The crowd was almost entirely white, with twice as many men as women. Kids under age 12, mostly boys, some riding their fathers’ shoulders, got in for half price. Some even got to have their own quality time with an assault weapon.
Nine-year-old Cody Miller from Cincinnati was among them. At a secondary firing range a few hundred yards from the main one, a gun range assistant laid an empty ammo box on the ground for the youngster to stand on to fire a Soviet-made PKS heavy machine gun.
“Are you ready for this?” the spotter asked. The boy nodded and opened fire as his proud father looked on and photographed the scene. Cody said this was his second year firing machine guns. No big deal, he shrugged.
“We shoot a lot,” explained his father, Jeff Miller.
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