Posted on 03/29/2010 8:07:17 AM PDT by Big Labor Hater
As the Tea Party Express rolled into Searchlight on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wasn’t home. Instead, he spent his morning at the grand opening of the Clark County Shooting Park, firing a shotgun at one of the facility’s new ranges.
“Everyone has said this is the greatest park in the United States of America, but I say it’s the greatest gun park in the world,” Reid said.
Reid helped to secure land and $61 million for the 2,900-acre facility under the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act. He was joined at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday by National Rifle Association of America Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, Rep. Shelley Berkley, Rep. Dina Titus, state Sen. John Jay Lee and Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins.
Reid practiced shooting at one of the ranges, firing six rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun and hitting two clay birds. Each clay bird busted into pieces and the crowd cheered as Reid reloaded the gun. Collins also fired several rounds.
Shooting at the park, on the northern edge of the valley, costs $7 per day for rifles, pistols and archery and $6 per 25-bird round for shotguns.
It has an archery range and building with a 30-seat classroom, a rifle and pistol range, and a shotgun center and 80 spaces for recreational vehicles.
LaPierre said the park is expected to be a tourist attraction with 35,000 to 40,000 people expected to participate in shooting activities each year.
“I know how you worked,” LaPierre said to Reid before turning back to the audience. “(This) would not have opened without the work of Sen. Reid.”
Since the park first opened on weekends in January, Lee said more than 4,000 shooters have participated – which he called a significant amount considering the range hasn’t been advertising.
The park will also be used for educational purposes, Collins said. Many youth groups have visited the park to learn about shooting sports and gun safety, he said.
Michael Reese, 15, said he has been shooting for seven years and visits the park every other weekend with his father. It’s become a tradition for the two of them, he said.
“It’s a very nice facility,” Reese said.
And what happens if he’s replaced without the Republicans taking the Senate?
The goa is irrelevant since they haven’t done anything on their own. Oh, wait. They had a information gathering for CCW licenses. The very licenses they had called a “compromise” and didn’t support when the NRA and the SAF were fighting for them.
Morton Grove and other Illinois cities no longer have handgun bans because of the SAF and the NRA. No thanks to people like you.
goa = AWOL
The NRA doesn’t stand for the National Republican Association.
Stupid post of the day. Your friend is an idiot.
That’s because the NRA fought against Parker. We would have lost.
The guy who started Parker doesn’t even own a gun. He didn’t care if we won or lost.
I don’t believe you.
Is that you, Sarah?
We don’t have the votes to overturn NICS.
La Pierre is a f****** moron if he thinks Harry Reid is a friend of the 2nd Amendment. He should be fired and barred from ever calling himself an advocate for gun owners anywhere at anytime for any reason.
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Nor should it.
But there is a difference between being partisans only for the truth and being “bipartisan,” or being for both sides of the duopoly we call the Republican/Democrat “two-party” system.
The NRA should be the former, but their history is in large degree of being the latter.
The goa asked for the “Narrow” view on Heller. You can read all their lame excuses on their website.
And they still haven’t sued a single city or municipality due to their stupidity. Even the SAS didn’t ask for the “Narrow” view.
Thanks for nothing, goa.
He thanked him for the park. The next time you’re looking for a place to shoot, the NRA probably provided the gunrange protection in your state.
You whiners are always looking for an excuse to do nothing. Keep sitting on the sidelines, we don’t need you.
The NRA is a single issue player. If you think the Second Amendment isn’t important, that’s your problem.
Glad you showed up to grovel. I spoke to ILA this morning. The man was equally pitiful. I have been NRA at least 20 years. Piss poor PR, no matter how you spin it. Put that in your cartridge case and crimp it.
What a tremendous illustration of exactly the mindset I was talking about. I couldn't have dreamed someone could or would do it so effectively.
Groovy. He licked the hand the feeds him. How very....subservient of Mr. LaPierre.
I think there's a very relevant quote from one of the Fathers that is particularly relevant to Mr. LaPierre. Try it on for size and see if it fits:
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Guess what, Mr. LaPierre. We don't need you, either. You're a pathetic butt-kisser.
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And another lame crybaby attitude. Are you going to quit because you didn’t receive the plastic keychain?
While you sit on your ass while others protect your Rights.
Yep. The Second Amendment isn’t important to you. Got it.
You're full of assumptions, aren't you.
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