I really can’t imagine what parents, gun range or instructor could be thinking… presupposing they had the equipment to think in the first place. Gun training for kids? Sure, I guess. Handing an alley broom to a kid for the fun of it? Insanity. And Darwin Award to boot.
Sorry to keep posting links in reply to posts today but this shows there is a certain prevalence of it in some parts of the US: Armed to the milk teeth: America's gun-toting kids | Photography | The Guardian
Poor girl. She needs new parents.
And definitely needs a new gun instructor.
Perhaps a less powerful weapon, too.
As famous last words go “All right, full auto” could only be improved on by adding “Hold my beer.”
Never fired an Uzi. Maybe the switch has “single”, “auto”, and “natural” selection?
I couldn’t find any information yet on whether the instructor had reproduced, so the Darwin Award might be an unproven assumption.
For the win. Maybe the all-day win.
Man, I’ve heard of rotten ways to commit suicide before, but “suicide-by-nine-year-old” really takes the cake.
Uzi’s and kids don’t seem to mix well.
In Vietnam, when Special Forces advisors were training Montagnards and Hmongs in using full auto weapons, they’d use M-60s with 6 round belts and M-16 magazines with 5 rounds. They’d work up to full belts and mags.
I could’t tell by the clip, but was the stock extended on the Uzi? I don’t care what you see in movies or TV, when you first try out something like that, you extend the stock and either hold it against your shoulder or between your elbow and your torso.
This is like the difference between giving a kid a moderately-powered, controllable pistol or rifle to actually learn something about gun handling, safety, and even fun… and tossing them the keys to your Enzo or Carrera GT for a few spins around the track.
Just what do these moron (adults) *think *is going to happen? Does all red-state “fun” have to involve a high chance of maiming or death? Are the storm troopers so out of control that little Susie needs to handle full-auto assault weapons, in case mom and dad go in the first attack?
Obviously gun instructors should be armed to protect themselves from little girls.
Man, that kid’s life is ruined. How do you get over having shot and killed a guy at 9? 
Clearly, we need to outlaw 9-year-olds. Those things are dangerous.
Kids don’t kill people, parents with kids kill people.
Concur with giving Count Blucher mega-props. Smartly done, sirrah!
Exactly. How do you ever top that?
Should make for some interesting “first date” table talk when she’s older.