A man overwhelmed with patriotic fervor decided to play the U.S. National Anthem with a suppressed rifle on Wednesday. The result is a beautiful tribute to America and her greatness.
Former Top Shot contestant Chris Cheng took to YouTube to share his beautiful rendition of the tun which celebrates America's triumph over the British at Baltimore harbor. Cheng shoots his way through specially designed steel plates that correspond to different musical notes in a complicated but delightful performance. The integrally suppressed Ruger 10/22 is quiet enough that the music really comes through stronger than the gun-based musical performances that have come before.
"There's nothing that says freedom like shooting the Star Spangled Banner with an integrally suppressed rifle," the video's description said. "Chris Cheng shoots some freedom with the Musical Targets™ system."
Cheng said his musical act was his way of celebrating America's independence day. "Seeing as it's coming up to July 4th hopefully you're doing something fun to celebrate our nation's independence," he said at the beginning of the video. "What better way to celebrate than to shoot an integrally suppressed Ruger 10/22? It is so quiet that the pinging and the musical tones down range are louder than the rapport coming from the gun. It's really a fantastic gun to shoot."
"Let's go shoot some freedom" Cheng then said before performing his remarkable feat.