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Teaching a 9 years old girl how to fire an Uzi? What could go wrong? Bye, bye dumb$hit.

 

"Dolan Springs, Arizona: An instructor at a shooting range in Arizona has died after a nine-year-old girl accidentally shot him in the head with an Uzi sub-machinegun he was showing her how to use, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office said.

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I gotta admit, I agree with you. At nine, my friends and I were shooting daisy BB guns, not real weapons.


By 9 I'd already gone through a dozen bricks of ammo.  


 



By 10 I already had my own shotgun.   (clearly my parents weren't thinking straight... who in their right mind puts a .410 gauge shotgun in the hands of a child!??!)


POint being, there is a far cry from a supervised single shot, regardless the caliber/gauge, to a complex select-fire gun that rates poorly in terms of controlled fire.


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By 9 I'd already gone through a dozen bricks of ammo.  

 

 

By 10 I already had my own shotgun.   (clearly my parents weren't thinking straight... who in their right mind puts a .410 gauge shotgun in the hands of a child!??!)

 

POint being, there is a far cry from a supervised single shot, regardless the caliber/gauge, to a complex select-fire gun that rates poorly in terms of controlled fire.

Agreed. I was a little older before I got to shot a real weapon (11 maybe?), and took shooting safety classes with BB guns at the local YMCA. I guess the exact age is up to the parents, and I don't have issues with that. It just seemed a little weird for a 9 year old to be shotting an Uzi. I started a little late, but by 25 I was firing M16s, M60s, 50 cals, and calling artillery and airstrikes. :D

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Kids in Maine can hunt deer, bear, moose at 10. Obviously they are shooting before that. You don't hear about any accidents. The type/style of weapon chosen here along with poor judgement/technique by the instructor had to be major contributing factors.

"mother Theresa was a POS"-fish'nmagician

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I never fired an automatic weapon. And although our youth hunter safety classes teach gun safety, there are not any tips on how to handle an Uzi.


What is the deal with this weapon? Does it kick straight up, and require the user to hold it down hard? Are Uzi's made for nine-year-old girls?


I feel worse for the little girl who shot the guy.


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By 9 I'd already gone through a dozen bricks of ammo.


 



By 10 I already had my own shotgun.   (clearly my parents weren't thinking straight... who in their right mind puts a .410 gauge shotgun in the hands of a child!??!)


POint being, there is a far cry from a supervised single shot, regardless the caliber/gauge, to a complex select-fire gun that rates poorly in terms of controlled fire.





It is very common. I had two cousins that were 9 and 11 who had there own gun rack with 410's and 22's.  My neighbor's son received his first 22 at 9, it is kept locked up most of the time.


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I was squirrel hunting with a .410 by 7 and deer hunting with a .243 at 8. I expect my kids will do the same. I can see no reason to give a weapon like that to a 9 year old. And I agree, the one I feel bad for is her.

"all of jase's posts are valid." -Otter

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