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Republican candidate holds 'machine gun social'
SC candidate raffles off AK-47 at campaign rally

Bullets and barbecue: SC candidate raffles off AK-47, offers target practice at campaign rally
Sep 27, 2009 13:28 EST

A candidate to be South Carolina's next National Guard leader skipped the fiery speeches for firepower, launching his campaign with what he called a "machine-gun social."


The Greenville News reports some 500 people came out to a shooting range Saturday for Republican Dean Allen's political rally. He wants to be the next adjutant general, the person who leads the state's National Guard.

Attendees paid $25 for barbecue, a clip of bullets for target practice and the chance to win a semiautomatic AK-47. Whoever wins the rifle will have to undergo a background check.

Allen says he is an Army veteran who wanted to celebrate Second Amendment rights. South Carolina is the only state that elects its adjutant general.

Source: AP News

Someone in the comments made this observation: "What the hell is wrong with these people? Are they simply frustrated because they never learned to play a musical instrument?"

Indeed!