http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574...-38198,00.html

Boy shot himself at gun show
Child supervised during incident
Lost control of a submachine gun
AN eight-year-old boy has died after shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun at a fair in Massachusetts.

Christopher Bizilj was firing the gun under the supervision of a Certified Instructor when he lost control of the weapon and was hit in the head.

The boy had been attending the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman's Club in Massachusetts.

Police said Christopher “was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury".

He died in hospital.

Police called it a "self-inflicted accidental shooting" but police are investigating.

The size of Uzis vary and police did not say which model the boy was firing.

The weapon was designed for use by the Israeli military.

Advertising for the event said: "You will be accompanied to the firing line with a certified instructor to guide you."
Those under 16 were admitted free, and free .22-calibre pistol and rifle shooting for adults and kids was offered, according to the promotional material.

People were allowed to fire guns at cars, vegetables and other targets at the show.

 

Wow. As much as I am for guns being available to citizens and all that, that just sounds rediculous. I mean, why would you let an 8 year old shoot a gun like that? Thats just insane.

 

^^^ I agree, honestly, what genius has the bright idea to hand their child an uzi and not at least hold on to make sure that no one gets hurt

 

Its things like this that make me glad I live in Canada.

 

dumb parents.

 

I saw that earlier, this is absolutely retarded. What person in his right mind would willingly hand a 8-year old an AUTOMATIC, 600 rounds per minute weapon that's probably half his size, and tell him to shoot it?! And he was supervised by an 'official' mind you..

BUT he would have needed to wait 13 more years to be able to drink a beer?

 

x2

Gun shows....really? i mean really really? Do we really need gun shows?


Really?

 

^ Nothing against gun shows, every person needs his hobbies, but why allow and even _encourage_ children to come to them?

 

That's like a wreck at NASCAR while a kid was standing on the wrong side of the fence, then saying do we need NASCAR? You've got to respect other people's hobbies. They got into guns just like we got into cars. Cars kill more people each year then guns. We've also got to respect other people's rights.

Personally, I think the 'official' is fully to blame.

 

Ohhh noossss! The big bad USA is shooting their guns again...
Don't ever cross the border, ever. If your glad to live in canada, stay there.
Wait whats this 8 year old shot out hunting,

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/481709

Its not all maple leafs, mounties and moose up there cuz nothing ever happens up north...


12 year old...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/20...oy-injured.html
Seems to me to be a lot less controlled then a firing line.

Gun Shows, have you ever been to one? They are the ones who respect the guns. so ya, we do need gun shows.


Media Spin on guns in Canada,
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_21915.aspx


Canadian-

section 17 of Firearms Act makes it an offense for anyone, including a security guard, to possess prohibited or restricted firearms (i.e. handguns) outside of his or her home. There are two exceptions to this prohibition found in sections 18 and 19 of the Act. Section 18 allows for transport of a firearm, if authorized, for certain limited reasons, such as going to and from a range, a training course or repair shop. Such firearms must be unloaded, stored in secure, locked containers and equipped with a trigger lock. Section 19 of the Act allows individuals to carry firearms on their persons to protect their lives or the lives of other persons, or, with authorization, for the performance of their occupation. Such authorization may be granted for protecting money or valuables, or to protect oneself against wildlife when working in a remote wilderness area. It is thus rare for Canadian security guards to be equipped with firearms other than those employed by armoured car companies.

In 1996, the province of Alberta, in a referral to the provincial Court of Appeals, challenged Parliament's constitutional authority to enact the licensing and registration provisions of the law, which, it argued, infringed upon provincial jurisdiction over property and civil rights. The Court upheld the law in a split decision, which Alberta appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Five other provinces and two territories, as well as two Aboriginal groups and several gun owners' associations, intervened on behalf of Alberta. On June 15, 2000, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Alberta's appeal, affirming Parliament's jurisdiction under the federal criminal law power.

"Guns cannot be divided neatly into two categories — those that are dangerous and those that are not dangerous," the Court wrote. "All guns are capable of being used in crime. All guns are capable of killing and maiming. It follows that all guns pose a threat to public safety. As such, their control falls within the criminal law power."


U.S.A
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the Right of the people to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed."

-"If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, and the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete, and inevitable failure of gun laws to control crime." -- Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) quoted from "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Report of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1982, p. vii."

-"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Laws for punishment for crimes committed with guns, not laws against guns.