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With the cancellation of this weekend's Knob Creek machine gun shoot, we reminisce when ABC News mistook the night shoot for a Syrian war battle.

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As of March 16, the shoot is still on. However, the situation concerning the Caronavirus pandemic is evolving rapidly, and things may change.

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The Big Sandy is the largest machine gun shoot in the US. For three days, hundreds of shooters fire approximately 2 million rounds at a variety of reactionary targets.

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October 2017's Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot was a huge success. The event saw a huge turnout with hundreds of guns firing and no one getting hurt. Here are some photos from my weekend.

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The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot is not only famous for machine guns, but also some incredible shopping. Buyers comes from every corner of the US to drop some serious coin.

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Some behind the scenes images of The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot before it kicks off this weekend.

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Explosives expert Terry Bacon show us how to blow up a minivan using dynamite, diesel fuel and an M5A1 Stuart tank firing it's 37mm main gun.

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Explosives expert Terry Bacon, who helps out at the annual Knob Creek shoot, show us how to blow up a guitar using dynamite and an AR-15.

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Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like traipsing through the snow with silenced weapons and taking pot shots at Christmas trees. Silencerco offers this very cheery, if not very quiet, Christmas video. So enjoy the guns, suppressors, and explosions in this bit of holiday cheer from the innovative Utah-based company. [ YouTube ]

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Swiss photographer Ueli Alder created hyper-realistic explosions in a very unique way. In his project, “Detonations”, Alder took photos from around the web and superimposed a combination of photos from real-life weapons tests and screenshots captured from video games like Call of Duty, New Yorker reports. The result is convincingly real depictions of detonations, or as […]

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A fireball. A mushroom cloud. The Syrian civil war has been going on for over two bloody and terrible years. Much of the country remain divided on which side to fight for, Assad or the Syrian rebels. Rebel forces had been closing in on the capital of Damascus but in recent weeks have been pushed […]

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The M982E1 Excalibur 1B by Raytheon is an extended-range, GPS-guided artillery shell full of 155 mm of “mean”. This beauty is as lethal as it is accurate, capable of hitting targets up to 25 miles out with an average miss distance of just under 4 feet. During the environmental qualification/accuracy test the Excalibur scored 19 […]

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