My 9-year-old simply must learn to use an Uzi submachine gun before she's 10

[YellowDog]

Nine-year-old US girl kills shooting instructor

http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8896972/nine-year-old-american-girl-kills-shooting-instructor-with-uzi

Definitely a Darwin Award contender - FFS

[Big Dog]

I could see a 9 year old needing to operate an Uzi safely in the Gaza Strip. Not the Vegas strip malls.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Swoop]

That's why you stand behind any shooter on the firing point.
1st round was single shot, but why switch to full-noise straight after that?

[Tazz]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/274/4/d/__merica_by_pengiun12-d5gh5jf.jpg


Charles Vacca, 39, was instructing the child on safe use of the submachine gun when the recoil from firing the weapon caused her to aim and fire in his direction.

Well, that's one way to get fired...

[SPman]

If the Uzi is like most smgs, it will pull left and up in the hands of an inexperienced shooter. So, where was the instructor standing........? FFS..........

[avgas]

If the Uzi is like most smgs, it will pull left and up in the hands of an inexperienced shooter. So, where was the instructor standing........? FFS..........
Because most people are right handed.......

[Akzle]

it's a fucken 9mm fcksake. what kind of little girl are ya that you can't handle a 9mm??

o... wait on...

[caseye]

Instructor ? has been Darwinised! Simple as that really.
Poor little girl, she will never forget today. For all the wrong reasons.
Handling a firearm is not rocket science, one of the yanks interviewed said, instructors stand on left or right side depending on the shooters handedness and the type of weapon in use and which setting it was on.
This Should NOT Have happened.

[Tazz]

This Should NOT Have happened.

Probably for the best that it did...

If he was doing shit like that himself what the hell crazy bad habits was he teaching his students?! 'Act fast! Shoot first! There will always be plenty of time to identify a target once you slow it down.' XD

[YellowDog]

One dead instructor.
One screwed up forever little girl.
Two dumb parents.
Millions entertained by such utter stupidity.

How about some house rules for the gun club. Perhaps such a weapon should have a minimum shooter age/strength/size limit?

[Akzle]

One dead instructor.
One screwed up forever little girl.
Two dumb parents.
Millions entertained by such utter stupidity.

How about some house rules for the gun club. Perhaps such a weapon should have a minimum shooter age/strength/size limit?

2nd ammendment rights you facist!

[awayatc]

Suzy 9 and Uzi 9 had a wee a blast

at" burgers and bullets "...

{increasing target sizes since 1945}

Good bang for your buck,

and even the odd Buck for your bang.



Currently hiring..............

last instructor got fired....

[awa355]

Dozy parents have probably got her enrolled at another shooting range already

[awayatc]

FWIW........

Uzi's are very good for desert use....but unsuitable for anything else.
It has a very heavy action with a fixed firing pin.
The trigger operates a lever preventing that action from sliding forward, and picking one of its 32 9mm rounds up.
Pulling the trigger releases that "brake"....
All the tolerances are very sloppy, to make it function even when full of sand....
That sloppiness, combined with the weight of action, short barrel, large clip in handle, and high rate of fire make it very prone to accidentally "run off"
{just a little knock can set it of.....}

No this is not a copy and paste......
It was my personal weapon for a while, and i have seen it go off like that....

[Big Dog]

One dead instructor.
One screwed up forever little girl.
Two dumb parents.
Millions entertained by such utter stupidity.

How about some house rules for the gun club. Perhaps such a weapon should have a minimum shooter age/strength/size limit?
According to the Paul Henry shows report on this the gun range has reacted to this event by setting a minimum height and age requirement to use the automatic weapons.

The gun ranges spokesperson seemed oddly cheerful discussion this event.

Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[TheDemonLord]

'Murica

Fuck Yeah!

[MD]

I had a blast firing guns at a Vegas range. Tried the Al Capone era tommy gun and a larger military machine gun. It was hard to believe in a few seconds 50 rounds had gone. So addictive, every child should get one for Christmas.

What surprised me was there was no sudden recoil, just a smooth constant, but gentle-ish upward pressure. Once you balanced your own level of resistance to this upward pressure it was all too easy.

But why on earth would you want to, or even let, a small 9 year child use one? Dumbest parents, even dumber Instructor to allow it and not foresee the obvious outcome.

I liked the comment in today's Herald from some anti-gun/pro-safety Yank that they have better safety regulations on who can ride a roller coaster than for guns.