North Carolina GOP Congressional Candidate Holds Machine Gun Social

Tim D'Annunzio, House GOP candidate for North Carolina's 8th Congressional district, held an unusual fundraiser on Thursday night.

A contribution of $25 came complete with a full North Carolina barbecue dinner, sweet tea, a semi-automatic machine gun magazine for use at Jim's Guns Indoor Shooting Range in Fayetteville, NC, the site of the fundraiser, and a raffle ticket for a chance to win an AR-15 assault rifle.

52-year old D'Annuzio is one of at least five Republicans hoping to win the nomination for North Carolina's 8th District. He is a staunch advocate of 2nd Amendment rights, a point that he seems to have gotten across with Thursday night's "machine gun social."

Democrat Larry Kissell and Libertarian Thomas Hill are also set to challenge the eventual winner of the Republican nomination.

D'Annunzio is also a professional skydiver and sponsors Paraclete XP skydiving team.

Watch Scenes From The Machine Gun Social:

Comments

[johuyik]

09:00 PM on 02/17/2010

this is really a good idea...you'd be surprised to see how cooperative people get when you're holding a loaded automatic weapon.

[happygeek84]

06:47 PM on 02/17/2010

It still irks me when people use the term machine gun to describe any automatic. There's a huge difference between a Glock 18 or a MP5 and a M2 BMG people. Look machine gun up in the dictionary, for God's sake. It is a distinct class of automatic weapon. It's not a 100% black and white definition, but it generally means a belt fed automatic weapon that's equipped with a quick change barrel. Think crew serve weapons.

The weapon shown in the picture looks an awful lot like a MP5 submachine gun (automatic with a buttstock that fires pistol caliber rounds). Although as already mentioned, in the article it says "semi-automatic machine gun". I guess reporters can't be bothered to spend 2 minutes on Google before they send their stuff to press.

[OdinsEye]

12:40 PM on 02/21/2010

Machine gun is any firearm which fires more than one shot per trigger pull. IOW machine gun = full-auto. Classes of machine gun include crew served, mini-guns/AKA electric or self-powered Gatling guns, sub-machine gun, machine pistol, and assault rifle. SAWs might be their own separate class of machine gun, but generally fall under crew served.

[CrittersRTasty]

07:19 PM on 02/15/2010

"semi-automatic machine gun"?

[OdinsEye]

07:45 PM on 02/15/2010

HP has been told about it several times. They still don't get it.

[CrittersRTasty]

10:09 PM on 02/15/2010

I guess it sounds more dramatic if you use "machine gun".

[randyjet]

10:45 AM on 02/15/2010

That was a great idea. The price was great too. Even though I would not vote for the guy, I sure would have paid $25 to get a full clip and a chance to shoot it. I was thinking of getting my license to own and shoot a machine gun, until I saw the cost for just the license and gun. A machine gun goes through a LOT of money in a BIG hurry. Shooting a machine gun is fun as I discovered in the military, as long as I am not paying for the ammo and not getting shot at the same time.

[askmeificare]

10:31 AM on 02/15/2010

I bet it was much safer to be there than on a college campus where fire-arms are banned

[Freemind42]

10:51 AM on 02/15/2010

You obviously have never looked at gun statistics. This argument is patently false and only shows the ignorance of the gun-crazy community.

[askmeificare]

11:17 AM on 02/15/2010

Since I am always looking for information to form my opinions, I would like to see those stats you speak of. Got a link?

[OdinsEye]

12:53 PM on 02/15/2010

askmeificare is correct. The statistics say it is much safer to be at a supervised shooting range firing machine guns.

[CarolinaYankee]

10:26 AM on 02/15/2010

I suppose they will be shooting at watermelons for targets.

[Elm Creek Smith]

07:39 PM on 02/17/2010

Watermelons make excellent reactive targets. They do tend to make a mess in an indoor range.

Or were you attempting to paint the attendees as racists? If so, you exposed your own racism by implication.

ECS

[CarolinaYankee]

10:24 AM on 02/15/2010

Now, here is an event that I DARE Michael Steele to attend. Oh, by the way, they will serve SWEET TEA, not just white leaf tea at this event.

[Elm Creek Smith]

07:41 PM on 02/17/2010

Why is that, CY? You don't think Michael Steele would be welcome?

BTW, sweet tea is pretty standard for the south. Nothing for you to get upset about.

ECS

[JonathanTroy]

10:05 AM on 02/15/2010

The candidate is grandstanding for primary voters, but this is a non-issue in the general election, because the Democratic incumbent supports the Bill of Rights, including the 2nd Amendment. The real threat to Kissell will come in a primary challenge, which could unseat him or irreversibly damage him going into the general election. Kissell is a solid rep, and it would be a shame for him to be replaced by a know-nothing right-populist showboat.

Also, while I haven't followed the links, it appears that there were no "machine guns" involved in this event, but rather semi-automatic carbines. NC is more restrictive about full-auto firearms than people think it would be.

[OdinsEye]

12:55 PM on 02/15/2010

The firearms they were shooting are full-autos AKA machine guns. The firearm that was being given away is a semi-auto. Last I looked, NC followed federal laws regarding full-auto firearms.

[JonathanTroy]

01:03 PM on 02/15/2010

I stand corrected on the type of guns used in the shoot. I didn't read carefully enough to catch that.

Regarding NC's requirements for owning a machine gun, according to the NC Firearms Laws, Section IV.D:

"It has been consistently held within our office that the valid licensing of an individual to possess a machine gun under federal law does not automatically legitimize his or her possession of the weapon in the various counties of North Carolina. Nor does such federal licensing require the sheriff to issue a permit for the possession of such a weapon without first satisfying the prerequisites of N.C.G.S. § 14-409. Therefore, the permit provisions of N.C.G.S. § 14-409 would need to be complied with, even though a person is currently licensed under federal law to possess a machine gun."

[wlt]

09:52 AM on 02/15/2010

Another loser looking for votes from people that really don't care about America, just like Palin.

[Manhattanite]

08:56 AM on 02/15/2010

A bunch of rednecks who have serious insecurities about their manhood... Likely the same bunch that salivates over the Alaskan Grifter.

[la2010verdad]

12:24 PM on 02/15/2010

One of our stereotypical rednecks is worth a hundred of your effete hanky-waving si$$ies cavorting through that wasteland you call Manhattan. Please feel free to attend the next MG fundraiser -- as a target.

[Jack Wilson]

12:35 PM on 02/15/2010

You have issued a threat. Please note that these threads are monitored by law enforcement agencies.

[Manhattanite]

12:47 PM on 02/15/2010

Your animosity towards NYC appears to be pathological. You could not make it in NYC? Too much competition for you?

As for your threat, I flagged you as abusive, and I am forwarding the link to the FBI. If there is someone who should not get near a firearm, it is you.

[Corners]

08:26 AM on 02/15/2010

So? At least hes not ripping people off at $25 a plate. I wouldn't vote for him,but going after people who shoot weapons for fun is really low on my priority list. Our prison problem is a much bigger issue. We can lock up millions of our own citizens but using that same system to lock up terrorist is some how wrong and immoral blows my mind.

[realitytrumpsbull]

10:51 PM on 02/14/2010

Machine guns have been around since the 1800's, and there's not much use for them in hunting, well, animals, anyway. Over the years, machine guns have gotten more reliable, can fire more rapidly, and become smaller, more portable. The AR-15 discussed in the story is a civilian version of the M-16, which isn't quite a machine gun, although it can fire several times in succession. What's the appeal of having a machine gun? Well, folks of varying pedigree have long known that with several willing friends, who also have machine guns, you can 'take over', assert violent authority, kill people, knock over banks, hold off the bad guys, stuff like that. There's lots of movies that show just that. Actually, they show actors 'going through the motions' with movie props that look like machine guns that fire blanks, but that's another story. Should such arms be sold to the public? That's been a controversial issue since the Clinton era, if not before, because in distant times, the 'roaring twenties', the mobsters, the gangsters, Al Capone et. al., had machine guns, 'tommy guns', the Thompson. Everybody wants bigger better guns that fire more bullets. Mr. Kalashnikov, in an interview, said he'd wished he'd invented something else.

Now, what would you do, with a machine gun, besides get your jollies at a firing range? What, indeed.

[OdinsEye]

01:02 AM on 02/15/2010

The M-16 is indeed a "machine gun". Any firearm which can fire more than one shot per trigger pull is a machine gun. Some variations on the M-16 have a three-round burst setting, but they are still machine guns. The MP-5 and Uzis being shot at the social are also machine guns (there are civilian semi-auto Uzis).

The civilian AR-15 is a semi-auto only. This is the firearm they were giving away.

People who own machine guns use them at the range or at machine gun shoots. They also make some money by renting them out for events like the machine gun social.

[HisXLNC]

01:36 AM on 02/15/2010

"Over the years, machine guns have gotten more reliable, can fire more rapidly, and become smaller, more portable."

Actually, one of the highest cyclic rates is held by a WWII era Nazi gun, the MG-42. It could fire anywhere from 1200 to 1500 rounds per minute. That's almost twice as fast as some of the "new" machine guns like the M-16, Uzi, and MP-5.

[BlackJAC]

10:41 PM on 02/14/2010

At least he's offering up an American-made rifle, unlike that other gop who offered a Commie AK-47. Guess there's a reason gop turf is called "the red states."

[HisXLNC]

01:45 AM on 02/15/2010

There are American made AKs. About 10 different US companies make AK style rifles.

[Rooster Coburn]

07:22 PM on 02/14/2010

sorry! Wrong URL below. Here is the correct one.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/7116

[Jack Wilson]

07:36 PM on 02/14/2010

Champaign County? Well, well, well. Perhaps "Thirdpower" will be jumping out of a cake.

[mackbolan]

07:40 PM on 02/14/2010

what..no veiled racism in your post...what is wrong with you jack....

[Thirdpower]

04:38 PM on 02/15/2010

And why would I do that Jack?

Tag. You're it.

[Rooster Coburn]

07:20 PM on 02/14/2010

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