While you generally can’t get some trigger time in as a door gunner without first going through MEPS, there is a place near Las Vegas that makes an exception.
Gunship Helicopters will set you up with a mounted belt-fed M249 SAW hovering over a private shooting range in the Mojave Desert in a cute little A-Star 350 B2. As shown off in the above by Edwin Sarkissian, it looks like a blast, I mean, what’s not to love, right?