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Kentucky's Second Amendment Paradise

Machine Gun Shoot October 14, 2016 at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, KY. Kentucky's Second Amendment Paradise. October 2016. When it started in the 1960s, the Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show at Knob Creek Gun Range outside of Louisville, Kentucky, attracted only a handful of people. Today, the twice-yearly event draws about 13,000 spectators as they come to watch shooters fire fully automatic, military-grade weapons at downrange targets, instantly shredding propane tanks and cars. The event builds to a crescendo of fire and heat during Saturday’s “Night Shoot” as range security officers outfit targets with explosives that detonate on impact.

Kentucky's Second Amendment Paradise

Machine Gun Shoot held October 15, 2016 at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, KY. Kentucky's Second Amendment Paradise. October 2016. When it started in the 1960s, the Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show at Knob Creek Gun Range outside of Louisville, Kentucky, attracted only a handful of people. Today, the twice-yearly event draws about 13,000 spectators as they come to watch shooters fire fully automatic, military-grade weapons at downrange targets, instantly shredding propane tanks and cars. The event builds to a crescendo of fire and heat during Saturday’s “Night Shoot” as range security officers outfit targets with explosives that detonate on impact.