Arizona Nine-Year Old In Uzi Gun Lesson Accident

[The_Munchmaster]

What sort of fucked up people give a nine year old shooting lessons with a submachine gun?!

 

 

"A nine year-old girl in the US has killed her shooting instructor by accident while being shown how to use a high-powered submachine gun.

 

The instructor was giving the girl a lesson at a shooting range in Arizona when the recoil from the automatic fire caused her to lose control of the Uzi.

 

Charles Vacca, 39, was shot in the head and died after being airlifted to a hospital in Las Vegas.

 

The girl was at the shooting range with her parents, who filmed the lesson.

 

The footage shows the instructor coaching her as she fires a single shot at a target at the Last Stop shooting range in White Hills, Arizona.

 

The Uzi then appears to be switched to automatic as the girl pulls the trigger and loses her grip of the weapon.

 

The video, edited and released by the Mojave County Sheriff's office, ends abruptly before the instructor is shot.

 

Correspondents say it is common in parts of the US for children to be taught how to use firearms.

 

Many firing ranges have strict safety rules on instructing children. It is not clear what age limits the range has."

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

Yep, totally moronic. Unless the zombie apocalypse is about to start there is no reason for 9-year-old to know how to shoot an Uzi.

 

Sanuk!

[unit731]

An area in northwest part of Arizona - not far from where Timothy McVeigh practiced making explosives/bombs.

[Flashermac]

An instructor should have had better sense than to agree to it.

[BelgianBoy]

so, what was it again....? guns kill people or people with guns kill people....?

for so many things, the great US of A sometimes is really no better than some 3rd orld country....

 

BB

[Flashermac]

It is illegal to own a fully automatic Uzi (or any other fully automatic weapon) in the US. That is, unless you have a very hard to get permit for fully automatic weapons, which requires you to agree in advance that the federal authorities may search your home any time you want.

 

It will be interesting to see what this instructor was doing with a fully auto weapon, let alone allowing a child handle it.

[jitagawn]

Appalling Idiotic parental choice. :help:

[unit731]

The parents are idiots. Gun laws or no gun laws.

This child will have to live with this the rest of her life.

 

The instructor needs to be sent back for retraining.

 

I have fired fully automatic weapons on multiple occasions and they are not for children.

[Mekong]

 

 

The instructor needs to be sent back for retraining.

 

 

Pretty difficult considering he is dead.

[dean]

Very respectfully asking why this wasn't put in the USA thread? I know of at least one board member that was crucified for starting a separate thread on a USA specific topic. For the record, the way that this topic was listed doesn't bother me, but rules are rules.