Comments on: Babe. Machine guns. Explosives. Old Car. TV Segment. Do the Math.

By: barely.working

barely.working — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:42:05 +0000

I still think Kari Byron (from Mythbusters) did a better job than this girl. Plus is better looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KmAOtkKf00

By: Adub

Adub — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:11:16 +0000

That rocked! It looks almost as much fun as shooting prairie dogs!

By: Redwood

Redwood — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:49:05 +0000

That…was…AWESOME! Thanks for posting. I need to go up to Oklahoma.

By: pleiter

pleiter — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:09:34 +0000

If history serves, I don’t think the Russians captured too many Lahti to begin with. It was supposedly a very effective weapon.

By: Gardiner Westbound

Gardiner Westbound — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Whatever happened to taking the kids to the zoo?

By: Pat Holliday

Pat Holliday — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:40:43 +0000

I find US nonchalance towards guns deeply disturbing.

By: bootracks

bootracks — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:28:03 +0000

her boyfriend should worry next time he leaves the toilet seat up

By: H. Koppinen

H. Koppinen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:17:17 +0000

Oh yeah – on the Lahti – it could have been captured and rechambered by the Russians. I know even the Germans reused captured T-34 tanks.

The Russians wouldn’t have chambered it in 20×102, which is an American cartridge and wasn’t even in use at that point. It was probably sold de-activated by the Finnish military and then re-activated in the US.

This is god damn retarded. Sorry, it’s ridiculously, hysterically sad. A bunch of fat assess shooting off guns. Yeah, it’s damn homoerotic alright. And a huge epic fail, backed by the fact that the host is the only female unit at the event.

Shooting guns is fun. Are men not allowed to have fun if they are overweight and there are no women around? Since this is a car blog, here is an analogy: This is the equivalent of a bunch of fellows getting together and doing lots of burnouts. Sure it’s not cerebral (to the point of being moronic), nor something that requires any skills or real effort. But it’s hell of fun.

Just like the price spike last year in oil… pure market manipulation.

Not exactly. The US military is fighting two wars. This has greatly increased demand of ammunition in the US.

By: sutski

sutski — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:46:46 +0000

“A family event” sure it is, if you want to raise cute little redneck-warmongering-terrorists!

By: Gunit

Gunit — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:28:28 +0000

Somewhere, in a lab, they are growing brains for these people.

By: taxman100

taxman100 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:26:18 +0000

I haven’t been to a machine gun shoot since my days in the Marine Corps infantry, and that was courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Alas, Reagan was President, so other than the screaming Communist hordes, all the various two-bit tinpot dictatorships were scared to death of him, so I never fired a shot in anger.

I have to celebrate our independence from the King of England by firing off a large number of rounds from several of my evil “assault rifles”. We have to stay ready for the next rebellion against our oppressive ruling class.

Oh yeah – on the Lahti – it could have been captured and rechambered by the Russians. I know even the Germans reused captured T-34 tanks.

By: yankinwaoz

yankinwaoz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:32:46 +0000

Interesting about the price of ammo on the Browning A1. He claims it was 8-9 cents a round 4 years ago, now 25 cents a round.

The firearms industry has managed to whip up fear of Obama and is making a fortune on gullible edits who spend way too much on something that can be mass produced in almost infinite quantities.

Just like the price spike last year in oil… pure market manipulation.

By: 357Sig

357Sig — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:08:36 +0000

Still the greatest country on earth. There’s just no way around it.

She’s cute too. No way around that either.

By: skor

skor — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:47:26 +0000

@BlueBrat

“Hey, Yutz! Guns aren’t toys! They’re for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out your face! “

By: BlueBrat

BlueBrat — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:16:10 +0000

Yes, strong language used on purpose. Why is this posted on this site again?

FWIW, I am not anti-guns. Not even for a moment. I am anti-moron, however.

By: stevelovescars

stevelovescars — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:05:08 +0000

That explains all of those used cars on Craigslist from Oklahoma saying “salvage title… just due to minor sheet metal damage to the nose, professionally repaired.”

This could be a great way to train the Iraqi army AND take care of the oversupply of cars on dealer lots all at the same time!

By: NulloModo

NulloModo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:57:06 +0000

For anyone who cares the girl in the video is Alison Haislip, also of fiestamovement: http://fiestamovement.com/agents/view/6

By: rochskier

rochskier — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:35:57 +0000

Jesus I really need to get a Class III license and up-arm.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:15:52 +0000

Oh yeah! Sometimes I do wish I was American.

By: H. Koppinen

H. Koppinen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:59:27 +0000

Even without playing the video, I can see that the girl’s face and head are too close to a gun, especially a gun of that size.

No. That’s how you fire a rifle. The Lahti is a big rifle but it’s still a rifle. Check out where the sights are, in order for her to look through them, that’s where her face needs to be.

The fact that it wasn’t on its original mount (or cartridge) should have clued me in.

That mount is pretty crazy. I can understand the rechambering into something more modern. Especially as it was probably re-activated from a de-activated gun, which means all the original bits were not salvageable anyways. But the mount is just crazy. Although so is the recoil if you just fire it as intended.

By: skor

skor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:57:50 +0000

We use to have an annual full auto shoot at a club that I belong to in Pennsylvania. The club owner let us shoot at junk cars until we set the club property on fire one year, and the county fire marshal came out and yelled at us. Good, clean redneck fun it was.

Here is a pic of my friend’s 9 year old boy. We taught him how to run that MG-34 — WWII German belt-fed machine gun chambered in 8mm Mauser. He was the only kid in his fourth grade class that knew how to run a belt-fed. BTW, the gun at the top of the picture is a Browning M1919 in .30-06.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3j6z2/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/MGB.jpg

By: Johnny Canada

Johnny Canada — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:56:06 +0000

America, f–k yeah! Get some!

By: GrandCharles

GrandCharles — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:53:33 +0000

I bet that chrysler interior looks nicer now…just imagine that cheesy black dash hommage to Dali

By: twotone

twotone — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:42:22 +0000

Does it now qualify for the “cash for clunkers” program?

Twotone

By: Verbal

Verbal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:38:15 +0000

Was the Intrepid repaired afterwards?