Boy, 8, fatally shoots self with Uzi at gun show

It was a Micro-Uzi.

<blockquote>In a telephone interview yesterday, the boy's father, Dr. Charles Bizilj, said he stood 10 feet behind his son as a professional trained in using the 9-mm Micro Uzi machine gun stood beside the boy on Sunday afternoon. He said he doesn't think the shooting instructor was holding the weapon as his son pressed the trigger, as guides did with other children firing the weapon.

"This accident was truly a mystery to me," he said. "This is a horrible event, a horrible travesty, and I really don't know why it happened. I don't think it's relevant that [the instructor] wasn't holding the weapon."</blockquote>
 
I wonder what kind of liability agreement they have to sign prior to letting their children pick up a weapon?
 
Truly epic fail. I wonder how his dad feels right now? I hope he won't decide to make another kid.
 
horse said:
uzis and macs are beasts when it comes to recoil in relation to size.
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well, no, the full sized uzi is pretty easy to shoot, actually, and in itself relatively heavy. it weights about the same as a G36, mind you.

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sounds like a critical miss to me. many questions arise: was it the first time the kid had been shooting this thing? did they supervise and instruct him? was the full-auto mode intentional?
that being said, i think the father has learned from his mistake: never, ever, leave rookies without supervision when it comes to shooting.
 
Ah, guns. Ironically a double-edged sword.

As I see it, this is on the parent. Who gives their 8 year old an uzi and NOT expect something to go wrong.

Last I remembered, at 8 years old, you were all up in arms about your BB gun, not a freaking uzi.

Either way, can't really blame the gun can we?

Feel sorry for the kid though.
 
Lasix-9 said:
Last I remembered, at 8 years old, you were all up in arms about your BB gun, not a freaking uzi.
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hell, even 8 y.o. is young for a BB gun in these parts...
 
Lasix-9 said:
Ah, guns. Ironically a double-edged sword.

As I see it, this is on the parent. Who gives their 8 year old an uzi and NOT expect something to go wrong.

Last I remembered, at 8 years old, you were all up in arms about your BB gun, not a freaking uzi.
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Exactly. When I was a kid, I shoot an air gun and a KBKS (a .22 sporting rifle) not a gun for adults.
 
An 8 year old with a spoon can wreak some serious havoc, let a lone a real, automatic weapon made to kill people effectively. When I was 8 I got myself in trobule at least twice a day.
 
Liability agreement? I don't it will save the instructor from negligence.

For example, if you decide to go skydiving, you sign a liability agreement because the skydiving co demands it. You jump out of the plane, the chute fails to open, you splatter, and they get sued. No way to limit your liability on that one.

Same problem here. The instructor was an expert.

That said, maybe these gun shows need a bit of regulation.
 
Maybe you shouldn't give small, high-recoil automatic weapons to eight year olds.

Or they could go to summer camps in Congo, learn how to shoot AK-47s from 11 year old veterans.
 
Wooz said:
Maybe you shouldn't give small, high-recoil automatic weapons to eight year olds.

Or they could go to summer camps in Congo, learn how to shoot AK-47s from 11 year old veterans.
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The ambiguity and cynicism of that statement is the plain truth. Kids grow up as fast as the environment they are in makes them. Don't take a kid still so reliant on the support and guidance of their guardians and expect them to swim after you throw them into a river.

Father probably didn't want the kid that much anyways, his lack of guidance shows that. Good for him, he wins. Now he has more time to get drunk and run over teenagers with his 4x4 at 2am in the morning, and burn black people with gasoline.
 
The eulogy for the lad will most likely emphasize the mystery of "God's plan," and assure all mourners that he has gone to a better place after being "taken from us."

Which turns the affair from a (come on, admit it, relatively tame) tragedy into a tragicomedy speaking volumes about the surreal contradictions of human consciousness in the primitive age through which we are living.

you kaleidoscope junkies you
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I laughed.

Then again, I fucking despise children (and stupid parents in general). Not to mention that out of the hundreds of thousands of people who die daily (The majority of whom are nothing more than a number outside of their close friends/family); that's a pretty hilarious way to go.
 
Wow, what kind of moron gives an 8 y.o. an Uzi?

Really, what kind of parent are you when you're teaching your child to use an Uzi at age 8?
 
When he was seven my brother was allowed to practice shoot some shots with a revolver. The gun was pretty big and it ended with the barrel hitting my brother in the head because of the recoil. So I can see how this could have happened.
 
There once was that hillbilly guy on youtube who put up a video of him letting his son (I think he was frickin' FIVE or something) shoot an AK-47 full auto in the woods. But even that moron had the brains to hold the gun for the kid.
(He deleted the video after it getting flooded with negative comments)


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In the latest article, the father says he can't understand how such a tragic thing happened, since his son had been firing handguns and rifles for three years (first time with a full-automatic, though). And other kids had been firing the Uzi without any problems.

Some people need to learn that guns are not toys.
 
I shot a pretty high recoil gun when I was around 9 and also a rifle that as far as I can remember looked like an M4. I only took one shot with the rifle because it pretty much took off my shoulder. Neither was on full auto though, and the recoil was pretty big on both guns. I was in a military range though so supervision was a bit more strict that this...
 
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