What idiot allows an 8 year old to fire an automatic weapon? Are you fucking serious? 8 year olds can barely swing a baseball bat let alone handle an Uzi.
While I understand its legal to fire a firearm with parental permission, common sense should have told the parent and the gun owner that this would not be safe.
fucking great
YAY! Darwin scores another point!
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If he had an uzi in hand at 8, he never had a chance past 10 anyways. Great parenting!
No, Darwin missed. Parent should’ve been taken out.
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The sad thing is that teh father is some director at a hospital… so its not like he is some dumb redneck… can you think the mother will ever forgive the father for this?
wow… I got to shoot my first 22 at around 10/11, i can’t imagine being 8 with an assault gun.
HORRIBLE FATHER
Man, what a shame :tdown: I feel bad for everyone involved.
Accidents happen, even in a “safe” environment.
marriage is over.
This is no “accident”. This is just stupidity, plain and simple. The father, director of the ER at a local hospital (which means he shouldn’t be an idiot, and has seen gun shot wounds first hand), the range officer, whom should be trained in firearm safety, and the range director, whom should always be looking out to minimize range liability - they were all present. Not one of them said, “Hey, maybe letting a child shoot a gun that has enough recoil to get out of control is a bad idea.” Anyone that has fired an automatic firearm will tell you that the muzzle climbs as you fire it. Anyone on that firing line had to know it (except for the child). This sort of thing really angers me, because it gives anti gun nuts something to harp about.
I was around 10 I think when I got to fire a .22 rifle for the first time. I can’t imagine shooting a handgun, let alone hard to handle handgun, LET ALONE a fully automatic, hard to handle handgun when I was 8! Father is a retard. Poor kid.
Safe environment? They were at a gun show/range/expo whatever.
While i do agree that it was beyond stupid i dont agree the father was a dumb ass. Careless, and uneducated about the dangers of firearm misuse? Damn skippy.
Having lived most of my younger years with a father who’s hobby was firearms I have fired quite a few. If memory serves I fired my first .22 at 7 and it all went up in size from there.
Uzis, if it is an actual Uzi, have notoriously bad bouts of barrel climb, especially in the snub barrel versions. High cyclic rate + short weapon + midmounted pistol grip x 8 y/o boy…
shitty and sad.
well, more so than uncle charlies cablin where dad and all the guys are working on their 30th beer lol
i remember shooting pellet guns when i was 10 and thinking it had a lot of kick
i remember shooting a 20 gauge side by side a few months ago and thinking it had a ton of kick
why in gods name would you let your 8 year old shoot an uzi? a .22 maybe… but wtf
I dont see what the big deal is here. I fired my first uzi when i was 6. :roll:
i thought full automatic guns were illegal? maybe i am wrong but i cant see it being legal for a full automatic uzi to be used by a minor.