Scene: The tragedy unfolded at Bullets and Burgers, an activity center 25 miles south of Las Vegas
Posted on 08/26/2014 4:28:15 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
A firearms instructor has died after he was shot by a nine-year-old girl when she fired an Uzi at a shooting range in the Arizona desert.
Mohave County sheriff’s officials said 39-year-old Charles Vacca, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, died at the hospital on Monday after he was shot at the Last Stop outdoor shooting range.
Mohave County Sheriff Jim McCabe told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Vacca was standing next to the girl when she pulled the trigger. The gun recoiled and it went over her head.
The paper reported that the girl had successfully fired the 9mm weapon several times in “single-shot” mode before Vacca changed the setting to “fully automatic” mode.
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Especially when this girl probably has little idea on how to handle one recoil at a time. 9mm isn’t puny.
I taught my kid to shoot when he was young, even gave him some high power stuff, but you limit it to a single round to teach them what is coming.
Jeepus, a foll auto .308 will walk a 200 man backwards and point at the sky.
Exactly. Unless someone can show serious control of a firearm, don’t give them the bigger one.
“last Stop” sounds fitting /s
Shot my first Uzi in 1973 and I did not like it as it was too hard to control and I was 23 at the time. IDF then gave me a AK-47 that had only been dropped in the sand once and it was with me non stop for the next month. Not the best weapon but could hit something by the time the mag was empty.
Can you keep it on target?
FWIW the MP5 has a very heavy bolt carrier that takes tons of felt recoil out.
funny how the Guradian can report on this but not report on the white people being attacked and killed in retaliation for Ferguson
Too late for him, but not future instructors.
I don’t think the climb is too bad on a full-auto Uzi. Not saying I’m a former Israeli commando or anything but I have a bit of experience with this weapon in the past.
I would guess that the unexpected recoil made the weapon jump around too much and she held onto the trigger tighter than anything else because it was likely her dominant hand. The gun is out of control and the guy gets too close trying to help. She may have even turned around in a panic.
Zap.
What is a nine year old doing with an Uzi?
Yeah - I have two days and a wake up - and I’m out of The Loop for good...moving - getting the hell out of this city!
Chicago in general...they do a good job right in the middle of the Loop - but 270 degrees around - shooting all the time...The Lake part doesn’t count - although one can see a pirate ship floating around giving rides at the moment...
Chicago - America’s Iraq!
? The MP5 bolt carrier only weighs a few ounces,the roller delay lock allows the breech pressure to drop before the bolt head moves.The Uzi bolt weights several pounds,it’s a blowback operated weapon.
Yes, it happened in Massachusetts.
“The teenager who worked at a gun show where 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj accidentally killed himself while shooting an Uzi testified today he twice suggested the boy’s father pick a less powerful weapon for the boy to shoot....”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/father-christopher-bizilj-died-firing-uzi-urged-son/story?id=12565132
There’s a video out there of a group of African guerillas who gave a chimp a full auto AK and let him fire it. A real SHTF moment.
It was in Vegas too. Little boy. Glock 18. Dead right there. I was hoping the entire shooting world would have learned the hard lesson about automatic weapons in the hands of children. Apparently not.
Scene: The tragedy unfolded at Bullets and Burgers, an activity center 25 miles south of Las Vegas
>>Can you keep it on target?
Yeah. I’ve only fired 300 rounds through one, but dumping as whole mag and keeping it on target was pretty easy.
Massachusetts (2008)
I know some Freeper will turn that into a shorter link for us. Thank you.
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