hey,
does anyone know if there are firing ranges in taipei that have automatic weapons?
i’m not sure if they are regulated here or not (M-16’s and the like). i got a group of mates who just want to go out and blat off a few rounds.
thanks
sounds like you should go to thailand. or better yet, afghanistan. i hear they are looking for people to blow shit up there.
OK, i was being flippant.
you deserved it, but i do know of two firing ranges here in taipei.
one is on ChungShan North road, east side, just north of MinShuan university, JienTan. police use it a lot for pistols and MPs. no long arms.
another is a long way up ZhiShan Road, turn right at the fish restaurants and go on up to the top of the hill. rifle range. automatics? who knows. i have a feeling they are banned here, even at ranges.
I have been told things are very restricted here, even sport shooting is limited to olympic disciplines only.
Doesn’t include fully-automatic weapons I think.
(Probably not an alternative but you can easily obtain airsoft and BB guns in Taiwan as they are considered toys, including fully-automatic M-16 look-alikes).
urodacus: OK, i was being flippant…but you deserved it.
why? :loco:
From what I see in the streets, semi-automatic weapons must be banned. Not that I mean I’ve seen them - I’ve seen kids running around with pretty serious looking huge toy guns. If they were really out on the streets, kids wouldn’t carry them outside. The first few times I saw it it really freaked me out because stateside, those things are out there, so if you have such a toy it stays at home. Otherwise it makes people paranoid, jumpy, and in some cases, causes the police to take excessive action.
I subbed at a high school in Neihu where one of the students said she was part of the school’s shooting team. Apparently they have a firing range in the basement, or some damn thing, where she practices with her 9 mm. 
I’ve seen signboards down in Kending advertising a firing range.
I used to be into skeet quite a bit back home, but I wouldn’t venture on a firing range here. Until the general population starts driving responsibly I won’t go near any area where regular folks are handling firearms. :loco:
If someone can ride a scooter on the side of the road against oncoming traffic, or back up a hundred meters on the freeway to get on an off-ramp, or…:fume:… with no one even raising a finger in protest, then I can just see someone pointing a loaded shotgun at my chest and thinking I’m overreacting because his finger isn’t on the trigger. No way Jose!
Only time I was allowed to use a firearm was in the military. They are full auto but they wouldnt let us shoot it like that. Military takes firearm safety very seriously because if you point a firearm at someone at the range loaded or not, you get in a lot of trouble.
Get to know one of Taiwan’s finest. My wife’s family has numerous officers and they make their firing range available at most any opportunity I get. Also, it’s nice to have friends in the right places. I haven’t seen full auto weapons on the range but 9mm is very common. A few have .357 - mostly Colt Python. On the first combat round, I outfired everyone on the line. I am rated as “Expert” on comabat police ranges in the U.S. but realized that it might be good to downplay the accuracy so that I would be invited back. All in all, they were courtious and accomodating.
BTW, if you go down south in the aboriginal areas, it’s not uncommon to see guys (and women) riding on scooters with a rifle strapped upright to the bars. They check them out from the local police department to do boar hunting which is one of their aboriginal rights.
Get to know the locals. Most are really great guys to know and I am pleased to count many of them among my friends and close companions.
Enigma
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Quite the contrary.
Enigma has told you several very good reasons for why you should not be afraid. 
[quote=“Enigma”]Get to know one of Taiwan’s finest. My wife’s family has numerous officers and they make their firing range available at most any opportunity I get. Also, it’s nice to have friends in the right places. I haven’t seen full auto weapons on the range but 9mm is very common. A few have .357 - mostly Colt Python. On the first combat round, I outfired everyone on the line. I am rated as “Expert” on comabat police ranges in the U.S. but realized that it might be good to downplay the accuracy so that I would be invited back. All in all, they were courtious and accomodating.
BTW, if you go down south in the aboriginal areas, it’s not uncommon to see guys (and women) riding on scooters with a rifle strapped upright to the bars. They check them out from the local police department to do boar hunting which is one of their aboriginal rights.
Get to know the locals. Most are really great guys to know and I am pleased to count many of them among my friends and close companions.[/quote]
So non abrogrional people dont have the right to have guns for sporting purposes? How come they get more rights than everyone else?
Boar hunting isn’t sports. As to the other question, that’s probably a case for the Taiwan politics forum.
I have hunted wild boar in Texas, Tennessee, California and Mexico. Attempted it in Spain but couldn’t find any the day we went out so we settled for dove shooting for dinner that night.
Boar hunting is also a shooting sport in Germany as well as parts of France and Italy. Maybe some other Euro countries.
I think its also pretty well established in quite a few Asian and Pac Rim countries - Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and somewhat in Viet Nam.
Perhaps in Taiwan it is not considered a “sport”, but it certainly is in most of the rest of the world.
But Taiwan is a bit…different.
What Rascal means, I think, is that in Taiwan it’s not considered a sport. It’s considered a right of aboriginal people that they can hunt “for food” on their ancestral lands, not “for sport.”
Only time I hunted pigs was on Corsica. Followed the fuckers around all day in the mountains and finally caught up to them late in the afternoon. About a dozen of them, lying in the sun on a quiet road, refusing to budge for passing cars. They finally struggled to their feet and sauntered slowly off when we approached. We didn’t fire at them.
sandman -
Yes, I see the distinction.
Wild pigs are very intelligent. They can become very bothersome if they lose their wariness of man and realize they are not being hunted.
They don’t necessarily become docile, but they can be real pests about it.
Were there any wild pigs or boars in your area of Scotland?
Yep, that’s what I meant.
TC, no, we haven’t had pigs since the last ice age I don’t think. There are a few people raising them for meat though, and there was talk about reintroducing them in the wild. Don’t know how that’s going, but they HAVE reintroduced beavers to the wild in a secret location in the highlands somewhere.
Sounds like one of those 72 virgin tales, if you ask me…