Bullets and Burgers Reopen For Business After Tragic Gun Accident

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Bullets and Burgers, home to the Last Stop outdoor shooting range in Arizona, is open for business again, just days after a deadly accident that made headlines around the world. A 9-year-old girl firing an Uzi accidentally killed an instructor at the range Monday, but the owner says that was the first accident in the range’s 14-year history.

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In that time, “we’ve probably had 100,000 people shoot 5 million rounds of ammunition, and of those, 1,000 to 2,000 of them were children,” he tells the New York Times. “We’ve never given out a Band-Aid; no one’s never even got a scratch.” He describes instructor Charles Vacca, who was fatally shot when the girl lost control of the weapon, as a highly trained veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who was still in the Army Reserve.

The owner tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal he is aware the case has sparked fierce debate on gun issues, but he describes detractors as “the ones that are sitting downstairs in their mom’s basement with their fuzzy slippers and bathrobe and dirty underwear … because they just hate everything so much.” Even some fellow gun-range owners are critical, however, saying they would never have allowed a petite 9-year-old girl to handle a weapon that powerful.

The girl was from New Jersey, but Genghis Cohen, owner of a Las Vegas shooting range, tells the AP that many customers who want to fire automatic weapons are tourists from overseas. “They see guns as a big part of American culture, and they want to experience American culture,” says Cohen, who is installing a tethering system to stop machine guns from rising up as they fire, like the Uzi did in the accident that killed Vacca.

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4 years ago

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9 years ago

Bullets and Burgers – shoot your buns off…..only in America eh? 😉

jess
9 years ago

Harumph. So much he knows. AYUP Cletus I am wearing a tee shirt and no slippers or underwear, dirty or clean in my own living room, pissing and griping about gun control on the internetz tubes things thank you very much. NRA has weighed in with a little ditty about how you too as a child can have fun at a gun range in 7 ways. Tone deaf is not a way to go through life girls and boys.

jess
Reply to  jess
9 years ago

As an add, NO I will not be posting pics or getting the fuck out. Yer welcome

jess
Reply to  Professor Mike
9 years ago

Indeed I do, more than one even. I have Taz slippers and Soft Kitty ones from Big Bang theory to go with my BBT flannel pants and tee shirts for lounging around in, along with my Soft Kitty hoodie thank you very much. I also have some Marvin the Martian ones I got as a bday gift this year, to replace the ratty old ones I had. It can get a little chilly here in winter.

jess
Reply to  Professor Mike
9 years ago

It is indeed.

Reply to  jess
9 years ago

Can revisit the ‘no underwear’ thing? No? Damn it! 😉

newageluddite
9 years ago

So the owner Genghis (!) Cohen refers to his detractors as “the ones that are sitting downstairs in their mom’s basement with their fuzzy slippers and bathrobe and dirty underwear … because they just hate everything so much.” Sorry. I don’t have fuzzy slippers; my girlfriend threw them out long ago. Good way for the owner to deal with the tragic death of the instructor Charles Vacca. For Mr. Vacca, the death rate at the gun site was 100%.
I am glad he will now tether the machine guns, so the barrels won’t rise up as they’re fired. Too bad he didn’t read about the same thing happening a few months ago with a little boy, who ended up shooting himself to death before he could release the trigger.

Marsha Woerner
9 years ago

Still unacceptable!

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