Just seen in the news that a 9 year old girl has accidentally shot and killed her instructor on a rifle range in the US.
What on earth was a 9 year old doing with an Uzi?
Reading on it does turn out to be a complete accident, the gun "kicked" as it was switched to fully automatic, but surely she shouldn't have been firing it anyway.
Balancing this, i do remember as a young cadet going on to a rifle range at RAF Cosford for the first time, wearing ear defenders an officer barked an order to take the prone position and then load the weapon, at this point the kid 2 down from me turns around pointing his (unloaded) gun at the group behind. Rifle promptly snatched out of his hands, he was swiftly removed off the range ....
Guns/rifles and kids really do not mix.
