DO NOT GO TO A MACHINE GUN SHOOT. DO NOT FIRE A MACHINE GUN. You are skipping to step 6, kinda like skipping cigarettes and going straight to freebasing cocaine.
I posted this on another forum why you should not buy a suppressor.
1. First you buy a suppressor for your pistol. Kinda confusing, a lot of questions, but it is so cool. Everyone at work knows you are getting it. You call and check status at BATFE every two months, it is still pending. Stamp comes in, yay!
2. Then you buy one for a .22, Sheriff is a nice guy so what the heck, get another one.
3. You live in a free state and you think, this is easy and kinda cool. You want a machine gun so you buy a MAC 10.
4. You buy another suppressor for the MAC 10.
5. You start reading
www.UziTalk.com and start buying Lage uppers to slow down the rate of fire.
6. You go to a Subguns match and shoot a bunch of Subguns. You want a Uzi, Sterling, Swedish K, and MP5 and a belt fed.
7. You start thinking seriously about getting a SOT license.
8. You start reading
www.subguns.com and Sturmgewehr.com daily looking for a deal.
9. You read
www.subguns.com and Sturmgewehr.com when you wake up, at lunch, during your mother- in- laws funeral, and at bedtime looking for a deal.
10. You forget to pick up your daughter at dance because you are on the phone buying a great deal. another case of ammo shows up via UPS, wife is a bit pissed and suggests you " cut back some". You don't hear her because you are reading
www.hktalk.net NFA forum.
11. You buy an Uzi AND a Sterling. You are so excited so you buy a Fort Knox safe for $4000 to keep your toys in. You start answering questions on the internet gun boards about your experiences with NFA toys.
12. You spend your wife's anniversary present gift money at Long Mountain Outfitters on Volumes 1-5 of Dolf Goldsmith's history of the Browning Machine gun.
13. You are watching You-tube videos on how to set headspace and timing on a 1919 belt fed that you do not own --yet. Video was recommended on
www.beltfed.com. You begin buying 250 round cloth belts for a gun you don't own,-- yet.
14. A six month wait for a stamp no longer freaks you out. Sending a certified check to a stranger for over $15,000 for a 25+ year old gun does not worry you, well just a little. You buy a third safe. Any of these and your addiction officially has no cure at this point.
15. One day you realize you have 44 tax stamps and start warning others DO NOT BUY A SUPPRESSOR and DO NOT GO TO A machine gun shoot!
But if you do go, try a SWD M11, MAC10, Uzi, Sterling Mk4, SW76, or M2 carbine. One of those will most likely be your favorite machine gun. Also try a belt fed like a 1919A4. And shoot a few suppressed 9 mm and .22s. Take notes, you will saturate.
Have fun
RFA