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It's not just girls and women. Some guys have a difficult time handling weapons. In high school, I was in the Junior Army ROTC and they took us to an Army firing range to let us squeeze off a few rounds with an M-16. One guy failed to keep a good grip and his rifle flew up out of his hands and over his head, landing behind him. Another guy fired, got turned around and ended up standing there In a dazed state with his weapon pointing at one of the regular Army range instructors. Our Army instructor leapt forward and knocked the rifle to the ground. The range instructor had been standing there holding a cup of coffee in his hand. I'll never for get the look on his face when he saw that barrel pointing at him nor will I forget how that coffee cup shook in his hand before it fell to the ground...


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I've seen the same thing. forty-five years ago this month I was in boot camp. One of the things we had to do was shoot a standard Colt M-1911 .45 calibre pistol. We were all sitting on a small bleacher waiting our turn as five recruits at a time took theirs. One guy seemed to be panicked at that idea, but nobody really noticed. When he was told to "extend and fire" he pointed the gun forward, closed his eyes and turned his head to the right, at the same time pointing the weapon to his left. The guy to the left of him let out a yell and rather than duck simply held his pistol alongside his head like a shield. The instructor seemingly flew through the air, landed on the recruit and deftly plucked the pistol out of his hands, and told him "you go pick up shell casings."

Just wanted to add: very little has been said in the news reports regarding the possible psychological effects on the 9 year old girl. Aside from the horror of seeing what a gunshot wound to the head can do, she now has to live with the fact something she participated in resulted in her taking a human life. I foresee some very heavy therapy ahead for the poor child. I hope she comes through this with as minimal amount of psychological damage as possible...


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The only person i feel bad for is the 9 year old girl, who now has to live with herself because some idiot with the foresight of a potato didnt realize that a 9 year old girl (who probably never even fired a gun before) has no business firing anything, really. We dont let kids do certain things until a certain age for a reason. A 9 year old girl with zero experience has NO chance of controlling an uzi once it goes full auto. I wouldnt even trust an adult with an uzi unless they have had extensive experience with it.

Captain Hindsight...
 

Is working overtime today.:nope:

By what logic would any parent allow their 9 year old to fire a automatic weapon? Really?

I am just glad that no one else got hurt.

Add the Omaha police to the list...
 

They can't tell an airsoft pistol from a real one and they like to shoot film crew from the Cops TV show. Oh, they also like pumping a suspected robber full of lead, even after he's down:hmmm:
.http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/co...olice-shooting

What's all the fuss?
She probably just defended herself...

You could be right. If I'm not mistaken, it did appear that the instructor was fondling her tush when he was getting her into position to shoot.
YMMV

It depends on the situation.
Lets say as an example two fathers take 3 kids , two aged 9 and one aged 11 to a rather nice gun range to use one fathers guns.
The kids get to fire off some 5 round bursts in a prone position from a secured bipod mounted automatic weapon.
Is that logic a hell of a lot safer than just pulling the trigger standing with an Uzi.

I can understand teaching a kid how to handle a single fire weapon or even a single action weapon to learn how to handle weapons safely.

But a fully automatic with a 9 year old..... Just not getting it.

I was 19 before I fired my first automatic weapon. I was in the military and I was pretty intimidated despite several years experience with semi-automatics.

Pretty foolish I think allowing a 9 year old to fire an Uzi straight up. Now in all reality there are child soldiers firing AK-47s so a 9 year old could be trained to shoot an Uzi properly. Not that I am advocating such a thing or child soldiers but apparently African warlords have seen fit to do so.


The mistake was to allow a person lacking any experience to fire a fully automatic weapon. Even for an adult that could be a bad idea. Such a thing would be a very bad idea with an Uzi which has a high rate of fire the one in the picture looks like a Mini-Uzi which has a ROF of 900 RPM that's several rounds with one trigger pull.

Seems like I recall a similar accident involving a child and an UZI in which the child was hit and killed when the weapon turned upwards in the child's hands.

I had guns at age nine, a 20 gauge single barrel and 30/30 rifle, but we were raised and trained even at that age and an adult with us when hunting. A 9 year old with an Uzi is beyond stupid..

Well the thing is it was not a nine year old with an Uzi. It was an adult who was supposed to know how to instruct others in the safe use of firearms allowing a nine year old to fire a fully automatic weapon.


Like I said though child soldiers some younger than nine have used automatic weapons before so it can be done.