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This West Bank Gun Range Shows Tourists How to ‘Stop Terrorists’ & ‘Rescue Hostages’

Through innovative training, a West Bank company is offering tourists the thrill of their lives. Caliber 3, a shooting range located in Jerusalem, affords Americans, among others, the opportunity to practice shooting terrorists, while learning covert skills.

By all accounts, the experience is intense, thrilling and — unforgettable. Aside from aiming at cardboard cutouts made to look like radical operatives, visitors hear stories about battleground experiences and see a simulated assassination of terrorists by guards, YNetNews reports.

Caliber 3 Shooting Range in Israel Offers Tourists Chance to Shoot Terrorists

Image Credit: Caliber 3

Guides take participants through the invigorating process. Take Shay, for instance, one of the individuals who leads visitors through the Caliber 3 experience. According to YNetNews, he has an extensive background in actual combat and operations. Here’s a bit more about the intriguing individual — just one of the experts involved with the company:

Shay, a gray-haired guide with a throaty voice, demonstrates the best way to grab hold of an assailant, while shots sound in the nearby range. A variety of rifles and faux explosive belts lay on a desk in front of him, while the pictures of smiling “terrorist” targets line the walls. [...]

According to reports in the foreign media, Shay was one of the combat troops who took part in Operation Entebbe, the mission that rescued the passengers of a hijacked Air France flight in 1976. When the tourists hear about it, their eyes light up.

It’s people like Shay who show children and adults, alike, how to operate weapons and solve crises. While gun ranges are both common and popular fixtures in many communities, this one is particularly noteworthy because of its location in Israel. Additionally, it is unique in that those who work at Caliber 3, like Shay, have served in elite units within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

“This is a special program created due to popular demand,” explains Sharon Gat, Caliber 3′s manager. ”Travelers from all over the world come here to meet former combat troops and hear stories about elite units. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Indeed, this is a unique opportunity for any individuals who may find themselves visiting the Middle East. It’s also a prime chance for the local community to capitalize on tourism and the potential benefits stemming from individuals who go to Caliber 3 for the mere thrill of it.

At the end of the course everyone who participates gets a diploma in addition to learning terror-fighting skills.

“This is an awesome experience. I learned how to stop a terrorist and how to rescue hostages,” says Jacob, a 24-year-old tourist who visited the range. “Now, when I find myself in distress, I will know how to deal.”

Caliber 3 Shooting Range in Israel Offers Tourists Chance to Shoot Terrorists

Image Credit: Caliber 3

In addition to serving tourists, the company also works with the IDF in terms of training and preparation for battle. According to the range’s web site, Caliber 3 works to setup security installations in order to train professionals.

“The company works in close cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the field of Counter Terrorism,” Caliber 3′s web site proclaims. “This includes high level training operations against potential terror attacks in civilian areas such as communities, schools, kindergartens, shopping centers, public institutions etc.”

(H/T: YNetNews)

Comments (31)

  • dmerwin
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:14pm

    I am definitely down with this. The ultimate non liberal adventure vacay.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:00pm

    Some blood sucking lawyer would try to sue them for shooting cardboard if they were here. Lawyers have a woe pronounced upon them in the Bible. They are the root of all bad things when they sue for everything imaginable that they can get away with and tie up our courts. They are making it easier for groups to come into this country and sue for things they should not and tie up our courts and things that need to be in trial are being help up because of this.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Those Brits better use their time to get rid of that bunch of extremist Muslims taking over their country and quit worrying about some old due and his pathetic sign.

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  • jackact
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:26pm

    Is it possible to open one of these in Camden, NJ?

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    • blackyb
      Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:46pm

      Just throw tomatoes at them and sicke the “evil” dog upon them, and round it out by throwing a bucket of hog blood at ‘em.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:48pm

      If you have to ask, then you do not need one. Whatever people do they do not get if they ask permission. Is that the way it is going now-a-days?

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  • LANE131
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:26am

    This is a good idea, but how do they if at all screen the people who wish to take the course, i mean the terrorists who flew the plans into the world trade towers went to flight school in the USA.
    Hate to see terrorist use that training course for their ends.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:24am

    We should all train with a gun frequently. We will need the training against our own government and it‘s ’protected’ minions.

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  • 45-ACP
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:08am

    I want live ammo not paint ball guns.
    45

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:30pm

      I agree. I used to run a paintball field, and I have also fired a wide variety of real automatic and semiautomatic weapons. Paintball does not translate in almost any way to real weapons training. They behave and operate very differently, and I think that trying to translate paintball tactical training to real weapons would result in bad and potentially deadly habits. Significant weapons differences, a proper understanding of cover, range of fire differences which may significantly alter strategies are just some significant issues that come to mind. There is a reason the best tactical CT units don’t use paintball in their training. The closest they may come is to use simmunition in some CQB training. Paintball is a fun recreational activity. period. And if you decide to play, don’t wear those ridiculous jock straps and cups. I’ve played many hundreds of games and never needed a cup. Helmets/masks and gloves, long pants and sleeves will suffice just fine in addition to the proper adherence to commonsense range safety procedures.

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  • BRONZESTAR
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:06am

    It is at the ISRA range in Bonfield west of Kankakee,Il

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  • BRONZESTAR
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:02am

    Illinois State Rifle Association is hosting. NRA day this Saturday June 23, 2012 1000-1600. No FOID card needed. It may not be in Jerusalem, but it cool. PLENTY OF HANDoGUNS and rifles to demo.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:58am

    Different.

    Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
  • Slowman101
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:54am

    Sign me up!!

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  • chips1
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:50am

    Defending your life is the responsibility of the Obama cartel and you do not have the proper license.

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  • puravida56
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:44am

    hmmm- and to think I was content to sip margaritas on a beach for my vacation.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:43am

    The US Government has always consider these type activities… as Militia… and closely monitored them… of out of fear!

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  • Turin
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:43am

    Very cool. I’d love to attend!

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  • momrules
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:42am

    I think this is great. Civilians absolutely need to know how to deal with terrorists. WE, the people, do not always have military experts on hand just like we very often do not have police at the time we need them, only afterward.

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    • retiredguy1952
      Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:54am

      The responsibility of the cops is to draw chalk outlines around our corpses while the perpetrators are, by then, three counties away.

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  • Havok
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:40am

    why are they wearing cups OVER their pants?

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  • Tickdog
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:37am

    interesting…

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:35am

    I wish we had LOTS of them here in the USA….we are probably going to need them since the gov‘t is so ineffective at it’s properly described job.

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    • ENIGMA28724
      Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:11pm

      Second that thought, brother. However, it may be the GOVERNMENT terrorists we will have to deal with as well as the foreign ones.

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  • T-2
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:33am

    That’s awesome, I wanna go.

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  • Baja
    Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:27am

    It would be cool to see this company offer their courses in the states.

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