RedState has a Drudge Siren (ironically? no, probably not) exclusive today: the National Rifle Association is planning on endorsing Harry Reid for U.S. Senate in Nevada instead of armed insurrection candidate Sharron Angle. How can the NRA support a librul like Harry Reid over somebody who actually wants to use her Second Amendment rights to shoot people like Harry Reid? RedState says those evil hypocrites at the NRA are supporting Reid because he got a $61 million earmark for a gun range in Clark County, Nevada. Yes, this is a thing that exists, because we need our federal government to provide people who do not have enough gun ranges more gun ranges.
THERE IS VIDEO EVIDENCE:
Oh, look Harry Reid and the NRA love each other. “I repeat: This is and will be the finest shooting park in the world.”
Aren’t you proud of this shooting park you bought for Harry Reid and the NRA, America? [RedState]
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61 million?
sheesh, I could have built that shooting park for 30 million, tops.
Getting raped by the NRA is just part of God’s plan, Sharr.
Dove killer!
I thought shooting parks involved needles and skinny people with bad skin?
$30 million? What’s wrong with an open field and some tin cans?
Needs moar site adjustment
Sharron shot from the wrong Angle
:::clank:::
rimshot
[re=610290]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Thought that was Ozzie Osbourne?
[re=610292]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: I heard it was built on the site of the former Valley Loogie.
[re=610292]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: And just we gonna get to pick up those cans? ILLEGAL ALIENS?!?!?!?!? Didn’t think of that one, didjya? Stop hating ‘Merica…
Endorse one pro-gun Democrat, and I bet the wignuts will start claiming that the NRA is nothing more than a betraying liberal front group – yep, looking at the RedState comments, they have.
It’s those crazy eyes. I think Angle spent her 3 weeks away from the press recovering from a lifestyle lift or something. At the end of every crazy-assed statement she makes, she breaks into some shit-eating grin that just defies logic. The NRA doesn’t want guns in the hands of crazy people, is what I meant to say.
Good on Reid. If there’s one place that’s getting overdeveloped and where there isn’t enough place to shoot your gun, its in the unpopulated dirt hole that is Nevada.
You know, this motherfucking Mormon is smart: He’s outflanked this dumb teabagging skank. He’s not loud or “balls-to-the-wall” but he is getting his shit locked down for his election and Ms. Angle is up shit’s creek. (Not that I want to jinx it, but think where Reid was a year ago — when he was all but written off — and where he’s at now. Came through w/ the health bill, too. Maybe he’s got summa that Hopey smootheness going for him.)
[re=610291]CrunchyKnee[/re]: Only in Canada. And Europe.
Sharron Angle has already grossly violated the NRA’s minimal standards for firearm safety awareness, so for once, they appear to be supporting the only responsible gun owner in contention.
Only Harry Reid would wear a fucking plaid sweater to shoot a giant gun in the middle of the fucking dessert.
B-b-b-but we’re the only ones allowed to pander to the base!
How dumb and wingnutty is Angle? She thinks the separation of church and state is unconstitutional:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=191ZS217zOY
My fave comment so far …
“AARP, AMA, RINOS, NRA, …
Yep, they’ve been infiltrated. Where does it stop?
I think we need massive prayer.”
Maybe she can get the NRA back by offering them some chickens, you know so they can trade the chickens for a visit to their doctor.
Give people that hate you an amusement park and they’ll let you take over Congress. There is no box we cannot think outside of.
[re=610308]GIJoeIce[/re]: The volunteer-assistant-librarian sweater makes him all the more badass. He doesn’t have to wear pander-y clothes.
61 million smackeroos for a fucking gun range? vote the frivolous free-spending bastard out. the streets of our fine cities work perfectly well as gun ranges at no added cost.
Either Harry Reid’s three feet tall or that is the biggest blunderbuss I’ve seen in recent history. And Nevada — a big empty state populated by kangaroo rats, horny toads and tumbleweeds — needs to make a shooting range? I thought tractless desert was its own shooting range. Maybe they have to build a low wall around it so nobody shoots a gila monster by mistake, but anything more seems excessive.
[re=610318]TheCoolestGuyInTown[/re]: The chicken-barterer was the comparatively less insane one, who lost in the primary.
[re=610282]sati demise[/re]: How expensive is it to remove all traces of life and truck in dry dust as far as the eye can see? [re=610301]JMP[/re]: NRAINO!
$61 million dollars for a damn desert so a bunch of MORANA can stand around shoot guns? I thought the entire states of Texas, Montana, Arkansas, South Carolina and Kentucky were set aside as free public gun ranges. If Obama had signed an Executive Order spending $61 million for inner city health clinics to treat the poor, elderly and children, FAUX news and the Teabaggers would have blown a gasket.
Sort of O/T, sort of related, check this out for the next time you need to insult a wingnut, from Rumproast: The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time.
[re=610326]SayItWithWookies[/re]: It was still cheaper than a soccer pitch.
Also in Harry Reid’s favor for the NRA — he does not want to bury tons of nuclear stuff in the Nevada desert, forever. NRA loves loose nukes!
[re=610292]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: That would be the rest of the god forsaken blazing hell hole of a state. They were obviously trying to organize the shooting a little better than it has been.
Poor Erick Erickson. The fat, dumb, ugly bastard is running out of enemies. Soon, it will be just him and a handful of other losers in relaxed fit bib overalls hanging out at the video arcade and lamenting the days when the NRA stood up for conservatives like them.
Booo hoooo hoooo.
I’d say when the NRA is backing Harry Reid –which is clearly part of God’s plan– Sharron Angle is toast. Those fuckers can bring the money and the manpower to easily over power the teabaggers.
Also, it warms the cockles to see graft triumph over stupidity in this way.
Prolly cuz she wants to ban alcohol. And shooting when yer not drunk, what fun is that?
Oh and you’ll need social security when the NRA accidental death and dismembership insurance runs out.
$61 million? Gun ranges must feature a lot more than I imagined (that being dirt and paper targets). Do they feature “Most Dangerous Game” type stuff?
Lefties have infiltrated the NRA! The Tea Party is next! Hides yer wimmens!
Nicest teeth I’ve ever come across.
It’s better to give them targets to shoot at rather than letting ‘em pick their own.
In the very last scene (at 4.35), is that a road or highway in the distance? Is that a good idea?
Wow, Red State makes Harry out to be one evil mother. He is against guns in school, wants background checks to keep felons and certified nut cases (much worse than the wingnut wacko kind)from buying guns and ammo from vending machines, and voted against allowing anyone but Muslims from owning WMD’s. What a horrible un-American.
Harry was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done.
hahahahahahaha! Suck it tea tards!
Erick Erickson is just jealous because Harry Reid’s gun is so much larger than his.
Only the beginning.
“What opened Saturday is just the first $61 million and 178-acres of the facility, which was funded by the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act. In all, 2,900 acres of land were set aside for the shooting range.” — Las Vegas Sun.
[re=610341]Ducksworthy[/re]: What happens when Graft and Stupidity decide to team up and take over? Oh wait, was that the Bush administration?
Either that gun is altogether too big, or Harry is too small.
Either way, the kick is going to result in a downed satellite and a broken shoulder. (If you don’t understand this: you are a pacifist sissy otherwise known as prey.)
What? It isn’t the Harry Reid Shooting Park? He didn’t do that right. Aren’t politicians who get big pork projects in their states supposed to get whatever is built named after them?
Or maybe he was afraid to have it named after him for fear that if he showed up someone would take it literally and shoot him?
Have they not heard of using a Sharpie to draw circles on a old cardboard box? This must be one of those idiot-proof ranges where the shooting lanes are designed so you can’t hit any bystanders. Except for whenever you’re not facing the target directly (i.e., getting out of your car, walking up to the building, etc.). With a family-friendly gun shop with the ‘for the ladies’ pink handguns and Red Ryder BB guns for the little ‘uns.
[re=610364]Aurelio[/re]: Nevada should buy Arizona, and fix it with it’s excess awesome.
[re=610332]Katydid[/re]: That shit was hilarious. The follow up suggestions were great too, thanks.
[re=610339]Bordo[/re]: “I’d say when the NRA is backing Harry Reid –which is clearly part of God’s plan– Sharron Angle is toast. Those fuckers can bring the money and the manpower to easily over power the teabaggers.” Yeah, and the ones who fit in both categories will be confused.
[re=610367]lochnessmonster[/re]: He’s afraid someone would shoot him – with votes! Jeez, why do people take a phrase like “Shoot him” to refer to something violent?
Not a big NRA supporter, but even Wayne LaPierre is smart enough to figure out that it’s bad PR to support someone who advocates gun violence.
61 million for a shooting range is still a bargain-basement price compared to Afghanistan and Iraq. Sure, you have to wait in line a little longer but the commute is so much easier.
I didn’t think it was possible to be too crazy for the NRA.
In the video, where are the Mexican targets?
61 million jobs program.When Angle loses she can get one of those entry level jobs at the shootin range,unless she is just lazy and not mentally ill.
When they outlaw bringing guns to schools, only outlaws will bring guns to schools.
Jesus H. Christ with a kalashnikov, 61 million dollars is a lot of fucking money to build a stack of bricks in the middle of the desert. Absolutely nauseating, and yet money well spent if he can keep his seat.
This is a second amendment remedy, right?
[re=610292]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: You can be sure that perhaps 30% will end up in somebody’s bank account.
Harry seems to be overcompensating just a little bit with that gigantic 88 cm howitzer he’s hefting.
“People who criticize this probably would criticize… soccer.”
So, every American hates this shooting range, even though they paid for it with their hard earned monies.
Having spent time in Nevada, I can tell you that the first thing the Republican candidate usually does is accuse his/her Democratic opponent of being anti-gun; at which point the Dem shoots the Repug in the face.
It’s a Nevada thing.
That said: How the FUCK do you spend $61 million on a shooting range? It’s just some open ground; some benches; and some wooden posts on which you hang the targets.
Even if you add Trap and Skeet, it should have cost that much.
GODDAMN DEMOCRATS! WASTING THE TAXPAY . . . .
Oh. Wait a minute.
Never mind.
[re=610547]Neilist[/re]: There you are. Is that just some kind of long-barrel super-accuracy target-shooting gadget, or could it possibly be an actual “elephant gun”? ::rim-shot::
This is a big improvement over the old shooting range outside Las Vegas, which is an old TV, washer, and dryer someone dumped out in the desert.
I’ve never wanted to go to Las Vegas, but I DEFINITELY want to go to Clark County to see what a $61 million gun range looks like! Better dust off the old SKS.
I listened to Haley Barbour on NPR and Jeff Sessions on the MSNBC. If I had to sit in a room with those two, I wouldturn it into a shooting range. Give ‘em hell, Harry. You lack charisma, but brought in the Health Reform Bill. So what if we give the gun freaks in Nevada a posh shooting range? It’s worth it to imagine Sharon Engle. Angle. Ang–whatever going out of her mind and screaming insanely while the teabaggers’ heads spin around.
[re=610321]I Heart Accuracy[/re]: For the win.
[re=610547]Neilist[/re]: How the FUCK do you spend $61 million on a shooting range?
My guess is 20-30 million to folks that oppose government spending.
Quick! Round up the Red State Strike Farce and give them their orders! Send 500 pounds of plastic dog poo to … Oh wait, the NRA has guns.
Retreat! Retreat!
NRACORN IS IN THE CAHOOTS WITH NOBAMAR’S ONE WORLD GUVERNMENT.
What’s wrong with a public shooting range? We used the rest of Nevada to practice igniting nukular bombs. (The trick is to wet the fuse so it doesn’t burn to fast.)
I hope they remembered to put up a “No Terrorists Allowed” sign. We don’t want the bad guys to get their hands on any Second Amendment remedies. Especially anything as big, long and powerful as what Harry Reid is holding.
Are they havin’ an earthquake?
You people need to start thinking outside the box.
A Barrett .50 cal has a range of a little over a mile.
An M1A2 Abrams main battle tank can shoot accurately to 8,000 meters.
A Globalhawk UAV has a 14,000 nautical mile range, a 42 hour loiter time and is usually packing Hellfires which extend their range another 8,000 meters.
The Air Force just fired a Minuteman III that put a single simulated nuclear warhead 4,190 miles downrange into the Kwajalein Atoll.
If a well-regulated militia had access to this kind of firepower, $61 million starts to sound like a bargain.
I kind of want Reid to lose, just to end his poor reign as majority leader.
It’s not for the bales of straw. 61 million can build you a really nice Harry Reid Shootin Park Visitor’s Center, with firearms rental and souvenir stand, natch, but also restaurant, casino, spa and massage and “massage,” and convention center. All those things Nevada is famous for.
Plus, some Nevada contractor got a couple million for easy work, and a couple hundred Nevada voters will be employed by the new facility.
Money well spent.
The NRA didn’t get to be the nation’s largest hobbyist organization & activist group by being stupid. No way they were ever going to participate (fully) in the Tea Party crazy-train.
Reid was their only choice.
(They could have endorsed a Libertarian, or some such fringe third-party candidate, but that would be a fool’s errand. Likewise, suggesting an NRA-led “none of the above” surge — NOTA is a candidate, in all Nevada elections — wouldn’t have earned any points, either; not even from the contrarian left, the Huffington Post & such.)
Man, 61 million. For that price the targets should be able to return fire on full auto.
Oh yeah, RealJimbo? The Global Hawk doesn’t carry ordinance.
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