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- Posted: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 01:24:37 +0000
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why is this young 9 year old girl learning to shoot an uzi anyway? like seriously i thought i had seen it all for guns but this just blows the mind like seriously if you need to learn to shoot an uzi at that young age there is something seriously wrong here plus why is an adult handing a minor a gun to start with? are there not laws to say that children shouldn't shoot guns?
sure dont let children have guns in school or anyplace else but take them to a gun range and its ok??? i dont think so
this place needs a serious overhaul on the rules of letting children near guns
link from KTLA Ch 5 here
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An instructor at an outdoor shooting range in Arizona was fatally shot in the head by a 9-year-old girl who was learning to use a firearm, authorities announced Tuesday.
Charles Vacca, an instructor at a shooting range in White Hills, Ariz., showed a 9-year-old girl how to use an Uzi in this still from a video of the fatal lesson on Aug. 26, 2014. (Credit: Mohave County Sheriff's Department)
Charles Vacca, 39, of Lake Havasu City, was airlifted to a hospital in Las Vegas after the Monday morning shooting at Last Stop in White Hills, Arizona, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office announced.
Vacca had been teaching a 9-year-old female student, who was at the shooting range with her parents, how to use an automatic Uzi, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He was standing next to her when he was struck.
“The girl pulled the trigger on the automatic Uzi, the recoil sent the gun over her head and the victim was shot,” a Sheriff’s Office statement read.
The accident occurred at Last Stop Arizona, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The business is a roadside tourist destination on Highway 93 about 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas (map).
The instructor was working at Bullets and Burgers shooting range, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman told the Los Angeles Times, saying that the girl and her family were visiting the range while on vacation.
“This is a rarity for something like this to happen,” the spokeswoman told the newspaper.
Vacca was pronounced dead about 9 p.m. Monday.
An autopsy was set to be performed by the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office in Nevada.
It was not clear what model of Uzi, an Israeli maker of submachine guns, was used in the shooting.
Video of the moments before the shooting was apparently released by the Sheriff’s Office Tuesday, according to various reports. It was posted on the Arizona Republic’s website, among others.
It showed a male instructor in sunglasses and camouflage pants showing a girl in a T-shirt and pink shorts how to fire the weapon at a paper target at the other end of a dirt shooting range.
“We have to keep that held in,” he said in the video, holding the weapon in gloved hands before giving it to her. “Otherwise the gun won’t fire, OK?”
“All right, go ahead and give me one shot,” the man said, and the girl fired.
“All right. All right, pull out,” he said.
She fired the gun again, and the video ends.
sure dont let children have guns in school or anyplace else but take them to a gun range and its ok??? i dont think so
this place needs a serious overhaul on the rules of letting children near guns
link from KTLA Ch 5 here
FULL STORY BELOW
An instructor at an outdoor shooting range in Arizona was fatally shot in the head by a 9-year-old girl who was learning to use a firearm, authorities announced Tuesday.
Charles Vacca, an instructor at a shooting range in White Hills, Ariz., showed a 9-year-old girl how to use an Uzi in this still from a video of the fatal lesson on Aug. 26, 2014. (Credit: Mohave County Sheriff's Department)
Charles Vacca, 39, of Lake Havasu City, was airlifted to a hospital in Las Vegas after the Monday morning shooting at Last Stop in White Hills, Arizona, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office announced.
Vacca had been teaching a 9-year-old female student, who was at the shooting range with her parents, how to use an automatic Uzi, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He was standing next to her when he was struck.
“The girl pulled the trigger on the automatic Uzi, the recoil sent the gun over her head and the victim was shot,” a Sheriff’s Office statement read.
The accident occurred at Last Stop Arizona, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The business is a roadside tourist destination on Highway 93 about 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas (map).
The instructor was working at Bullets and Burgers shooting range, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman told the Los Angeles Times, saying that the girl and her family were visiting the range while on vacation.
“This is a rarity for something like this to happen,” the spokeswoman told the newspaper.
Vacca was pronounced dead about 9 p.m. Monday.
An autopsy was set to be performed by the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office in Nevada.
It was not clear what model of Uzi, an Israeli maker of submachine guns, was used in the shooting.
Video of the moments before the shooting was apparently released by the Sheriff’s Office Tuesday, according to various reports. It was posted on the Arizona Republic’s website, among others.
It showed a male instructor in sunglasses and camouflage pants showing a girl in a T-shirt and pink shorts how to fire the weapon at a paper target at the other end of a dirt shooting range.
“We have to keep that held in,” he said in the video, holding the weapon in gloved hands before giving it to her. “Otherwise the gun won’t fire, OK?”
“All right, go ahead and give me one shot,” the man said, and the girl fired.
“All right. All right, pull out,” he said.
She fired the gun again, and the video ends.
Cause the government wants to take our guns away. So they are showing this to show the citizens how bad guns are. Though not taking in consideration that those parents allowed that under qualified girl use a powerful weapon like an Uzi. Also the guy training her should have known not stand so close to her when she was using a gun like that. Stuff just doesn't add up.
The blame game is getting old. Everyone on the internet is quick to say he was too close and he should have known better as if they are an expert on teaching children how to fire guns.
In reality however, most instructors prefer to stay close to a child using a gun they have little experience with, and reason for this is to help them understand things by pointing them out, being able to help hold longer/heavier guns, and most importantly for safety, they are close and therefor can take ahold of the gun if something gets out of hand. Now obviously that not happening is what caused this whole situation, but usually guns don't fire quite that fast, it's hard to react to something that fires that many rounds per second.
Yeah he was leaned in a little far, but he might have been starting to go for the gun to push it down, the video only tells things from the camera's perspective.
My point however, is that what the instructor was doing, standing slightly behind and to the side, but close enough to be in access to the gun, is not out of the ordinary, and in itself does not mean the instructor was incompetent.
