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| - You had me at "machine guns".
However I'll admit, I chickened out and opted for a mere handgun on my first trip with a few friends last summer, leaving the big guns to the big boys. The basic handgun experience is $22 which includes 20 rounds, your lane rental, glasses, headset and target. The insturctor was patient with me, trembling to aim the gun and pull the trigger's threshold. Shells richocheted back at him, and he verbally coached me on how to strategically shoot my target, Saddam Hussien.
Terrifying, liberating, and addicting.
On the cab ride home our driver was telling us all about his stance on gun control. I don't know why I didn't know this factoid he soon shared with us, "Can't shoot those machine guns like that in California."
No way I was not going to miss out on the action. I needed to go back to try out the bigger, badder weapons.
So my friend Suzee and I, being the girly and giggly newly-discovered adrenaline junkies we are, decided to go back the next day to unleash some more fury. Her old nickname in high school used to be Uzi Suzee, so we decided to each have a run with the Uzi and SAW machine gun, each $50 for 50 rounds each. The closest runner up was the AK47, but we're saving that for our next trip in February. We were a little unsure but after asking the staff about the recoil on the uzi, the guy replies, "it was MADE for a woman." We were sold. It was my 22nd birthday, and it was totally worth the money. Again, I've never been to a shooting range so I can't compare much on the pricing, but it was easily the most fun I had all weekend, and what you spend might be a small sum relative to how else you spend your money in Vegas.
We tied our red bandannas across our foreheads and channeled Rambo as we fired at our targets, laughing and nervously grinning the entire time. The staff was cool about letting us take photos with the guns too, and understands that everyone wants to show their friends at home what they did on their vacation. My only constructive criticism was the slightly rushed instructions in actually using the firearms in the lanes. I had to ask twice because he explained it really quickly.
I never thought pulling the trigger on military artillery could catalyze such a strong addiction. Now I can't imagine a trip to Vegas without some gun store action.
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