The Alchemist on 21/2/2008 at 05:40
Awkward thread to have atop the NIU shooting thread but I'm really into firearms and I'm looking into getting one so I can go shooting at gun ranges. I don't really want a pistol though, I'd like a sub machine gun. A P90 or an MP5 would be ideal. But there's no point in owning one if I can't go shooting at a shooting range with it, cause it's really just for sport, I don't want it for self defense (although I'm sure it would come in handy if I had to resort to something like that). My girlfriend thinks you can't shoot submachine guns at shooting ranges so that sorta kills the idea.
So anywho, two questions:
What do you have to do to get a submachine gun permit? And are there shooting ranges that you can go to to shoot submachine guns?
Shug on 21/2/2008 at 08:09
THE CIA NIGGA
a flower in hell on 21/2/2008 at 10:36
Do a Google search on "Class 3 firearms."
Contrary to popular belief, it IS legal to own fully automatic weapons in a number of places in the US. You just have to have a shitload of permits and they are not cheap.
Even a crappy SMG, like an Intratec-9, is going to go for five or six thousand. A P90 or MP5 will run you 20,000 easy.
Edit: And you NEVER want to use Class 3 for self-defense. You WILL go to jail, regardless of how self-defens-ey the shooting was.
fett on 21/2/2008 at 13:34
Judging from U.S. news in the last year, all you should have to do is register at a state college. I think they issue them at orientation, along with a big-ass dose of crazy (you can opt out of the latter if you're already in possession).
Aerothorn on 21/2/2008 at 14:31
While I realize Fett is joking, it's worth noting that (last year notwithstanding) colleges have incredibly low murder rates compared to the general population.
june gloom on 21/2/2008 at 14:47
I'm sure that'll make the woman they found dead in a loading dock at my school feel better.
demagogue on 21/2/2008 at 18:27
I've heard of shooting ranges that allow shooting of these kinds of guns, and you see them on tv now and then ... can probably Google for that.
And I suspect, if you just want to shoot one, you can rent one from the range for the day. I don't know why you'd want to take it home anyway, since it's only real use is just being able to shoot it at a range, unless you have some fetish for taking it apart and putting it back together again.
fett's post reminds me of going to the shooting range at UTexas, which was right behind the main dorm near the center of campus. Maybe that made sense in the 1950's, but it sounds perverse now. UTexas invented campus shootings. They mostly just had .22's, though.
I liked target shooting, but I never wanted to take one home with me, or buy one ... even after my house got robbed by a guy crawling through my window. It's just not what I'd want to try to make the situation better. I'll buy more crap and the robber will continue his pathetic, antisocial existence ... so I feel like I have the high-ground in the end.
I'm posting this in the wrong thread, aren't I?
Shug on 21/2/2008 at 22:39
Your post certainly could use a dash more "RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS" and the faint scent of a man desperate to prove his masculinity, but you can't have everything
june gloom on 21/2/2008 at 22:53
alternatively a dash of left-wing hand-wringing and refusing to see things beyond a 10-foot diameter will do
Shug on 21/2/2008 at 22:55
oh no he didn't!
