Both Rob and Stephanie live in Frederick, and they have a love for their state. So there was a natural drive to open their range in their own hometown. It was a service to their community, for sure, but it was also a clever way to reach more people and expand interest in Second Amendment rights.
“Being here in Maryland, we’re in such a great location to be able to talk to many different people from all different places,” said Rob. “We’re less than 40 minutes or so to Baltimore and D.C., and there’s a lot of people who travel here. We wanted to create a place that was exciting and that people would want to come to from all over.”
With a mission “to change the way people think about guns, one experience at a time” right on the first page of The Machine Gun Nest’s website, the key was clearly getting as many new shooters through the doors as possible. Offering machine guns on tap seemed like a solid hook in a state like Maryland.
Machine guns might be the hook – a name like The Machine Gun Nest can’t hurt there – but one of their largest focuses is actually on getting their new and first-time shooters into classrooms for training and one-on-one instruction.