It's "all legal and fun" Until Your Child Gets His Head Blown Off.
Sister Mary Francis, what the hell is going on?
Questions:
WESTFIELD, Mass. – An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.
The boy lost control of the weapon while firing it Sunday at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman's Club, Police Lt. Lawrence Valliere said.
The boy was with a certified instructor and "was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury," a police statement said. Police called it a "self-inflicted accidental shooting."
The victim was taken to Baystate Medical Center where he died. His name was not released. Although the death appears to be an accident, police and the Hampden district attorney's office were investigating, officials said.
The club said on its Web site that the event, run in conjunction with C.O.P Firearms and Training, is "all legal and fun." People will be allowed to fire weapons at vehicles, pumpkins and other targets, it said.
Questions:
- Why was an eight-year old handling an UZI?
- Why was an eight-year old handling a real weapon?
- Why was an eight-year old handling a real weapon that was loaded?
- What made the certified instructor think an eight-year old could handle an Uzi?
- How long until the NRA tries to whitewash this entire incident?
Comments
4. Why was the child shooting what sounds like an automatic, rapid-fire, repeating weapon? I thought those were "illegal" to own (or rather, illegal to file down that pin that keeps it "semi" automatic). For the gun's force to have pushed the barrel up to his head and keep firing, it seems like it would have been your basic lead garden-hose type of gun, where it fires continuously until you let go the trigger. Arent those banned?