Best (uninformed) guess: the trainer was standing behind her, leaning over with his hands on hers to guide her. She got knocked on her ass and the gun trailed upwards; he caught a bullet under the chin.
The Uzi is recoil operated. The bolt (with the firing pin) is forced backwards against a spring with the first round is fired. The bolt is driven forward by the spring; a lip on the bolt strips a cartridge from the magazine and forces it into the chamber where the firing pin (driven by its own striker pin) hits the cartridge primer. Sets off the propellant and the bullet goes down range. The action repeats if set in “full auto” mode until ammo is all expended or the trigger is released. In semi-auto mode, a sear pin pops back up and interrupts the bolt travel after each round is fired. The trigger then has to be pulled again to fire a round. Some of our gun people can offer a better more technical explanation but that’s about what goes on.
In full auto, the barrel (short as it is in an Uzi) will attempt to climb from recoil. A 9mm round doesn’t “kick” that much except to a young girl. You also have a substantial weight to the bolt which is reciprocating back and forth. An inexperienced person will fight the recoil by gripping tighter. They won’t/can’t release the trigger. An experienced shooter will anticipate the climb and better control the weapon.
Sounds like the first round was in semi-auto; one trigger pull - one round. When switched to full auto, the girl simply lost control of the weapon. She had no idea how much the weapon would jump.
This probably had a very traumatic effect on the girl: hopefully the shooting instructor’s estate (as well as the shooting range) will have to pay substantial damages to her.
Let’s not forget October, 2008 when Christopher Bizilj (8 years old) fired an Uzi at a shooting range. The recoil caused the gun to kick up and discharge a fatal round into this young kid’s head.
I’m surprised this tragic incident hasn’t been brought up in any of the news stories concerning the recent fatal shooting range incident.
Shouldn’t people realize (especially with two fatal accidents) that children should NOT operate machine guns?
You might want to bring your own ambulance, though.
The dead instructor’s Facebook page makes it hard to feel sorry for his death. (Note: link isn’t to his actual Facebook page, but to a post on the Balloon Juice blog that has some of his FB page’s greatest hits.)
The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s story about the shooting notes: “The Bullets and Burgers website markets a unique shooting experience for customers.” Can’t complain about their truth in advertising, that’s for sure.
He was a shooting instructor, teaching a 9-year-old how to shoot. And she shot him.
No irony there.
I hope they put it back on semi-auto before they handed it back to her.
There is now a separate thread on the Uzi shooting:
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Doesn’t it make you sick how the anti-gun leftists are ridiculing the idea of 9-year olds with Uzis? Of course we need our kids to help with the shooting when Obama comes to take our families to the death camps.
The problem isn’t letting a 9-year old handle a gun. The problem was waiting till she was nine. She should have been practicing with revolvers at age 3 or 4, building arm strength, and using semi-automatics by age 6 or 7.
I used to think 3 or 4 years old was too young to handle a gun, but look at all the 4 year olds being killed by their 6-year old brothers. 4-year olds need to Stand their Ground too.
Here’s a British website ridiculing American kids with guns. Ridiculing hunting rifles no less; those aren’t even military assault rifles! Fuck off Britain, if we wanted your opinion we’d shoot it out of you.
I’m pretty sure that was illegal.
Minor in this case could mean a 17 year old.
You are welcome to try. All you need is 2/3rds of each house of congress and 3/4ths of the states. Good luck with that.
And Davie Crockett kilt him a bahr when he was only three.
Idaho Arms Teachers; Teacher Shoots Himself In Foot On First Week Of Classes
Ouch. That smarts.
Utah elementary school teacher carrying a concealed firearm accidentally shoots herselfin the bathroom.
My favorite part:
That is positively chilling.
Young black man was shot in Utah for wearing a toy sword while black.
Darrien Hunt was shot in the back while moving away from the cops who shot in self-defense. Moving away doesn’t work, not brandishing toys doesn’t work, raising arms in surrender doesn’t work; is there an instruction manual for blacks on how to avoid being shot by police?
For the record, the “toy” was a blunted steel blade that, and I quote, “would not cut much.”
That said, police lying and saying he lunged for them when all the bullet-wounds were on his back is a pretty big indicator of malfeasance on their part.
A western Colorado woman is accused of pointing a rifle at several children in a neighboring backyard because she was upset that an 11-year-old boy was playing his clarinet outside.
What, is she crazy? I can’t get my boy to practice his music! I threaten to shoot him if he won’t play.
You know you’re no Benny Goodman when . . .