A billboard for a Las Vegas gun range has been vandalised by a group calling for gun control, who changed an advertisement inviting tourists to fire an assault-style rifle to say, "Shoot A School Kid Only $29".
The darkly satirical message, which had previously said "Shoot a .50 calibre only $29," was taken down within hours and police were investigating. Officer Larry Hadfield said authorities were called a little before 5:30am on Thursday.
A local guerilla art collective called INDECLINE took credit for the act with a statement to KTNV-TV in Las Vegas calling for reforming gun laws "that are currently placing value on assault weapons over that of human life".
An email to INDECLINE by The Associated Press was not immediately answered.
A worker at Battlefield Las Vegas, the gun range that invites tourists to shoot a .50-calibre semi-automatic rifle, referred questions to managers who did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages.
The billboard near Interstate 15 is about 5.6 kilometres from the Mandalay Bay resort, where a gunman firing assault-style rifles from the 32nd-floor windows killed 58 people and injured more than 800 on October 1 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Last month, 17 students and staff members were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, spakring new calls for gun law reform across the US.
