MRC Machine Gun Shoot Fundraiser

[ny2nh]

The Manchester Republican Committee will be holding its annual shooting event in a couple of weeks.

This year it's a Machine Gun Shoot at the Pelham Fish and Game Club on Sunday, Aug. 5th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The club is located at 100 Simpson Mill Rd. in Pelham.

A Shooters Pass is $25 (whether you rent or use your own firearms)
Spectators Pass is $10 (for those who will not be shooting but still want to attend)
Parking Pass is $10 per vehicle
All participants ans spectators must wear eye and ear safety equipment, which if you don't have can be rented for $2.
Firearms and ammunition will be available for rent and purchase respectively from Manchester Firing Line - prices vary.
All firearms other than personal carry must arrive at the range cased.

For more info and to RSVP, contact Kelly Hurst at 623-3011 or kelly @ manchestergop . com.

[KBCraig]

Murphy's gets mentioned, too.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=GOP+fundraiser+to+feature+machine+gun+shoot&articleId=dff9058f-d867-4f10-8894-8ce94d13268b

GOP fundraiser to feature machine gun shoot

By SCOTT BROOKS
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff

MANCHESTER – City Republicans will be packing some serious firepower at their next party fundraiser.

Tired of the usual chicken dinners, the Manchester Republican Committee is planning to arm supporters next month with Uzis, M-16 rifles and other automatic weapons for a day of target practice at a Pelham firing range.

"The thought just struck me one day: a machine gun shoot. What the heck?" said Jerry Thibodeau, the committee chairman.

Thibodeau, who is himself a hunter and skeet shooter, pitched the Aug. 5 event as a fun social gathering, as well as a demonstration of the party's support for Second Amendment rights.

The concept prompted shudders across the political aisle. Chris Pappas, the city Democratic party chairman, called the event "not just in poor taste; it is downright offensive."

"The citizens of Manchester have lived through a deadly spike in violent crime the past year-and-a-half, despite the campaign promises of (Mayor) Frank Guinta to lower crime rates," Pappas said. "That the mayor's political party would seek to glorify the use of machine guns for political gain is unconscionable."

The GOP fundraiser will be held at the Pelham Fish and Game Club. Proceeds, Thibodeau said, will be split among the party, the club and the gun supplier.

Republican party leaders are hoping for a strong showing of both novices and experienced shooters. The cost to participants is $25, plus fees for ammunition and parking.

Each of the Republican Presidential candidates was invited, Thibodeau said, but all declined, saying they'll be busy preparing for the following weekend's much-ballyhooed straw poll in Ames, Iowa.

"I really tried to get Rudy Giuliani there," Thibodeau said. "Because I'll tell you, this is a guy that can't relax."

Bob Shaunessy, who chairs the Pelham club's class-3 weapons committee, says he expects shooters will get to select from a range of submachine guns, including Uzis, MAC-11s and Swedish K's, as well as M-16 and AR-15 rifles.

Twenty safety experts, called "range officers," will be on hand to load the guns and monitor the shooters, Shaunessy said. On-site instruction will be required for all participants.

"My first and foremost goal is that everybody who walks in walks out," Thibodeau said.

Few may be more excited about the event than the man who conceived it.

Thibodeau, who recently celebrated his 60th birthday, said he has not fired a machine gun in 40 years.

A Seacoast native, Thibodeau was exposed to guns at an early age. His father, he said, was a machine gunner in Guadalcanal during World War II.

Thibodeau's own experience with machine guns began at 18, he said, when a friend and his father took him out to fire rounds in a sand pit.

The experience, he said, was powerful.

"It's a way of expressing yourself, I guess," he said. "We all have a little testosterone in us, right?"

And yet, he said, many of the people responding to the event advertisements have been women.

The city committee's executive director, Kelly Hurst, said she, too, is excited about the chance to fire a machine gun for the first time.

No stranger to guns, Hurst said she carries a small pistol for personal protection, but notes, "I've never felt a need to carry a machine gun down the street with me."

"It's very different," Hurst said. "I don't know when anyone else, man or woman, may get an opportunity to do this."

Manchester Republicans have several other social events in the works. The committee recently launched a monthly mixer, known as "Thirsty Thursdays," at Murphy's Tap Room on Elm Street.

Other events are more family-friendly. A Sept. 16 rally at Veterans Park will include face painting, rock climbing and, Thibodeau said, an inflatable "moon walker."

"It's about people meeting people," Thibodeau said. "Get the heck away from the computer, get the heck away from work. Come on out and talk to people."

[ny2nh]

FYI - there will also be hamburgers & hot dogs for all attendees.

[mvpel]

We're looking for GO-NH members to help out at our table there - contact elogan@metrocast.net.

[Quantrill]

on the radio this morning they mentioned it and some Democrat honcho from Manchester was calling it "irresponsible".  Basically 'we have fundraisers for the environment and these people are encouraging destruction.  And when we've already had a cop killed' yadda yadda.

What a pansy...

[Dreepa]

on the radio this morning they mentioned it and some Democrat honcho from Manchester was calling it "irresponsible".  Basically 'we have fundraisers for the environment and these people are encouraging destruction.  And when we've already had a cop killed' yadda yadda.

What a pansy...

how is the shooting anti environment?
How does it have anything to do with a thug killing a cop?

pansy is right.

[ny2nh]

I didnlt hear it myself, but I understand that Manchester Dem Chair Chris Pappas was saying this is an inappropriate event considering Michael Briggs was killed....or soemthign along those lines.

Basically doing exactly what Dems always do - lie about the facts ans try to scare the voters into choosing the Dems.....God knows they wouldn't choose them for any other reason.

[Atlas]

The Ron Paul Wrecking Crew should seriously be in attendance.

[KBCraig]

Are there any Dem functions where alcohol is served? Or where attendees arrive by car? Don't they know how many children were killed by drunk drivers last year? How can they be so insensitive?

[CNHT]

on the radio this morning they mentioned it and some Democrat honcho from Manchester was calling it "irresponsible".  Basically 'we have fundraisers for the environment and these people are encouraging destruction.  And when we've already had a cop killed' yadda yadda.

What a pansy...

Maybe it's needed so people can work out their frustrations over the DAMAGE the Democrats have done since taking over in the statehouse.

[CNHT]

Are there any Dem functions where alcohol is served? Or where attendees arrive by car? Don't they know how many children were killed by drunk drivers last year? How can they be so insensitive?

They haven't heard about Ted Kennedy and Gary Condit? <snicker>

[Dreepa]

What about fat chicks and cigars?  ala Bill Clinton?

[mvpel]

Heck, a guy was beaten within an inch of his life last year in Manchester, left permanently disabled, with a baseball bat, and yet the Fisher Cats play blithely along in a huge stadium subsidized with tax money.  How can they be so insensitive?

[error]

Heck, a guy was beaten within an inch of his life last year in Manchester, left permanently disabled, with a baseball bat, and yet the Fisher Cats play blithely along in a huge stadium subsidized with tax money.  How can they be so insensitive?

Yes! Ban federally funded baseball!

[grasshopper]

  OK, this is starting to go down hill!  I say we sue Oldsmoblie!  Masshole Sen fatboy should still be in jail!
   I sent Guinta an e-mail telling him I'll contribute to his election if he showed up.  I also told him it was nice for a Republican to act like one for a change.

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