Fully Automatic Rifle

// March 15th, 2008 // Design, Hunting, Outdoors, Personal

So I am writing about something a little bit different tonight. As you know I am primarily a gun owner because I am a hunter. But with my move to Florida I have become more serious about personal protection. I want to be prepared if God forbid the day ever comes when I need to defend the life of my family or myself. In addition to this, I have an entrepreneurial interest in the shooting sports industry because it is a niche I understand and can relate to. Owning only two shotguns and a pistol doesn’t make me a “gun nut”, but I do generally like everything about guns except their misuse. As with all things, balance is needed.

With that as a backdrop, I had a unique opportunity to go to the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show and Conference (SHOT Show) show in February as a point-of-sale system consultant for a new Gun Club operator. I had a complete blast checking out all the hunting and shooting gear, and the new products were of high interest. Another unbelievable thing was the $125,000+ shotguns in the Perazzi booth. Those shotguns are really artwork with limitless durability.

While at the show, we were able to be one of the privileged few to get to shoot the new KRISS Super V System. This sub-machine gun is a completely new design and is amazing. I marvel at how the minds behind it have reinvented something already perfected and how simple it is to shoot.

Because fully automatic weapons typically cost $2500-$7500, most people never get the opportunity to shoot a quality sub-machine gun. Sure there are the gangsters and crazies out there who get a hold of cheaply made Uzi and Mac-10 guns, but those don’t really count because they are considered machine pistols and aren’t super accurate. This sub-machine gun is a serious weapon intended for military and SWAT use. I was able to put my first three shots inside of an inch circle at 10 yards shooting offhand. I am not that good of a shot. Of course, the red dot Aimpoint (the brand) sight sure helped with this.

So I am showing a 7 minute YouTube video below that will give you an idea of what I got to shoot. But let me just say that this was the easiest shooting gun I have ever had in my hands. Though it shoots .45 caliber bullets, it kicks like a .22 and stays right on target even on full auto. The KRISS shoots roughly 10 rounds of .45 per second. So, you can imagine how exhilarating it was to shoot the full magazine of 13 shells all at once. While this is not a gun I would ever have a need to own outside of a business opportunity of some sort, it was a neat once in a lifetime opportunity to shoot a weapon way ahead of everything else in it’s class.