How much does an ocean-going barge cost?

[Guest]

One big enough to house 30-60 passengers with accomodations and plenty of space for shooting machineguns with an indoor club area for other recreational activities. I googled up some prices, and they're low. This could be made into a reality..

[Guest]

The expensive part is the tug that gets it out to sea...

Not to mention a place to park it when you arent using it. Look up moorage for a barge sometime.

Also remember that anything that is on the barge has to be legal when it comes back to shore, once a machinegun always a machinegun.

[Azrael256]

I've got a better idea.  Why don't we all pitch in, buy a nice big yacht, and go sailing off the coast of Somalia.  We can recruit enough artillery off of THR to take down every last one of those pirates, and it'd be all kinds of fun.

When it comes to gun ranges at sea, you have the whole ocean to shoot at, not just what's on your barge.  As long as we're buying a barge, we should buy some bouys to use as target hangers.  Just toss 'em over the side on lines of selected lengths, let them drift away, pop off a few thousand rounds, and then reel 'em in.  Google "killer tomato" and you'll see what I mean.

[280plus]

We used to use 5 gallon buckets as targets. As long as they're waterproof and have a lid to start with. Them things are hard to hit bobbing all up and down like they do.

Azrael...I'm in!

[jefnvk]

So, how cheap is cheap?

[Antibubba]

You miss the really big moneymaking idea here-park that puppy outside of the territorial waters of JAPAN!  You can ferry in tens of thousands of Japanese "tourists" who would pay just to fire a revolver.  For a pull at an UZI-well, the barge better be big enough for the safe you'll need to hold it!  

[mfree]

Why go home? Park the barge in international waters and have a ferry lashed to it for travel. Keep a crew on board for security in the off times, and there you go.

[Modifiedbrowning]

Why not just invade Sealand?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand

[Justin]

Or Google Freedom Ship.

If you're gonna go, go BIG.

[Stand_watie]

Why not just invade Sealand?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand

Sealand was what gave me the idea of a barge in international waters being a gun mecca.

[Lo.Com.Denom]

Why not just invade Sealand?

See that big bastard Oerlikon-looking thingy, sitting on top? That's why.

I live really near to Sealand, actually. You can see it quite clearly from Felixstowe seashore. It's a shame "His Royal Highness" is such a nutter -- I'd love to see what it's like over there. He even warns off any small fishing boats, who sail too close to the tower.

And yep, every so often, somebody gets the idea that it'd be a great wheeze to invade Sealand... Only they tend to underestimate quite how seriously His Royal Fruitloop takes his principality. He came back once in a helicopter, tooled-up like something from a Frederick Forsyth novel and took the whole lot back by force. Even the Royal Navy tend to give Sealand a wide berth...