called and offered to have her up to its machine-gun shoot just south of Fort Morgan, she agreed.

You see, Cat is a Blue State island in the middle of a Red State family, and her father and brother have often fired these weapons of mass destruction (just check out the slideshow). So Cat decided it was time to fire a few big guns for herself.

Want to live vicariously through Cat? View the entire slideshow here.

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