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.
$61m in Federal money?
I’m pro gun, but I’m even more free market.
What a bunch of crap.
Thanks for the links... I have been increasingly disappointed in the NRA, maybe it’s time to give these other groups a shot.
“Wayne LaPierre Praises Harry Reid”
Uh oh, baby make boom-boom.
Aww, come one, Wayne’s just whoring a bit, selling the NRA to the bastards in power.
THe NRA became a LOT less effective after Chartlon Heston stepped aside.
No common sense! No concept of money! We elect MORONS to office!
The NRA believes in 2 things. 1) Collecting money and 2) Keeping the Status Quo. IIRC, they did not initiate the Heller case.
I've heard this complaint before and I wonder why the NRA hates me. I'm a Life Member and they never call me, not even to say howdy. I gave some money to the NRA-ILA and PVF and they seem to mail me pretty frequently as a result, but the regular NRA only sends me my magazine once a month.
Yeah wait till the new health care act gives some bureaucrat power to say guns and or bullets are an “epidemic health crisis” that must be banned in the name of safety for all. La Pierre will change his tune very quickly.
Only when voting SAAMI members tell too!!
Don't believe me? Look here.
You have a good point about the NRA not initiating the Heller case. It goes further, the NRA fought to get the case thrown out and refused to support it.
The NRA lost any respect I had for them years ago when they stopped trying to get the Brady Bill repealed and the NICS system abolished. Now they team up with Democrats to craft bills to strengthen the unconstitutional “prove yourself worthy” NICS system.
“Please add Second Amendment Sisters to your list. We were born right here of Free Republic in 1999 to counter the Million Mom March aka Brady Bunch. “
BTT
Oops.... of=on duh!
Ping
A lot of gun stores won't be open with the work of Sen. Reid.
With Harry dishing out government funds, I’m sure the NRA won’t miss my membership.
Sort of illustrates the old saying;
“If you can’t fight ‘em, join ‘em!”
Looks like my NRA membership has just expired. I can keep my guns all by myself without them complicating things.
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