We celebrated America’s 250th Independence Day in fine style!
We had several friends and neighbors over to our house to share in the festivities. We had all the traditional refreshments. I cooked burgers, hot dogs and corn on the cob on my grill. We had watermelon and oodles of red, white and blue desserts.
We had a particular surprise when our neighbor’s son, who is in the Army Reserve, showed up unexpectedly. He has been deployed on the border in Texas to assist Border Patrol in their operations there. He had convinced everyone that he could not get his leave approved, and thereby couldn’t get home for the 4th. Then, out of the blue, he showed up! We were pleasantly shocked, and his arrival made it a perfect holiday.
Since we have five acres, and I have my own shooting range, we invited everyone to bring their favorite firearms for a little shooting fun before the sun went down, and the fireworks started. We had about 20 rifles, pistols and handguns all laid out on tables on our deck, and we were all taking turns shooting at a target set up in the back yard.
One person bought out a machine gun (fully legal and permitted), and it was fired several times – to everyone’s enjoyment. LOTS of fun for a bunch of gun enthusiasts!
Once it got dark, we had a huge fireworks show, courtesy of our son, Max.
So, I was at church on Wednesday, and had a gentleman I know approach me.
“Did you happen to hear any automatic fire around your neighborhood on Saturday?” he asked me.
Man, do we live in a small town! I know that this gentleman actually lives about 15 miles from me, so he must have been visiting someone in my area.
I replied that it “might” have been us having a little fun before the fireworks show.
So, it’s no secret in my neighborhood that I’m an avid shooter, and gunshots are very commonplace across our mountain and adjoining valleys (not just me). But I found it hilarious that someone FROM MY CHURCH heard fully automatic machine gun fire “in my area” and immediately thought of me.
Never a dull moment here at the Home Office!
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Here in England I think you can be arrested for carrying a loaded water pistol in public, tho’ I’m not 100% sure of this.
My son is a collector of historic firearms, most of which are functional .My property also has a small but well maintained shooting range that sees quite a bit of shooting throughout the year. We also own a serviceable, historically accurate reproduction 6 lb howitzer that we use for historical re-enactments where we fire it without ordinance (cannonballs, grapeshot etc) for safety reasons (the cannon is capable of firing a six pound iron cannonball over a mile,Since six pound shot cost over fifty dollars on average and space is limited We will probably never fire a cannonball out of our cannon.