A couple of months ago, I went to a machine gun shoot in Knob Creek kentucky and they had a private range where collectors shot their guns and a rental range where some collectors let the public shoot their weapons (for a fee of course). I posted the vidoes on GoogleVideo, so let me know how it works. Here is a link
you sort of answered your own question, although I don't alot about firing guns Im pretty sure the gun has very strong recoil and might knock him over.
p.s. what kind of machine gun was being fired?
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He was putting his fist behind my dad's shoulder. It was because peoeple normally fire the MGs without any reguard to accuracy. As you can see I was firing in bursts and one long burst.
In which video are you talking about? If your talking about the 3rd Video on Google video, that was just a whole bunch of Machine Guns. They also had a GE Minigun there too.