Fantastic Fest is a film festival held annual here in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse. I don’t attend FF (I couldn’t take the endless hours of movie watching), but my buddy W loves it and attends as a VIP every year. W sent me this video:

My understanding is Tim League, owner of the Drafthouse and co-founder of FF, does this sort of thing every year. He takes the foreign film producers out for some shooting of machine guns, sporting clays, and then some good BBQ. Shows them a little bit of Texas. Heh.

I will say, watching some of the video is cringeworthy. Shooting that full auto Glock… watching the angle of the muzzle… I know of the facility they were shooting at but I don’t know the geography of the location. I hope there’s nothing important within 2 miles behind that berm. 😯  It should be noted that many people in that video have never shot a gun before (if it wasn’t obvious), and I do question how responsible it was for people that don’t know how to shoot to shoot a difficult to control gun like a full-auto Glock.

Apart from that, it was really cool to see the host of firearms they got to play with. I’m a little envious. 🙂