Posted by NCWayne on August 26, 2014 at 17:47:34 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: kids and guns posted by brandon j on August 26, 2014 at 16:21:17:
As another post stated, fully automatic(ed) guns, be they hand guns or rifles, are illegal without the proper paperwork, and fees paid. In other words she was shooting a semi auto handgun.
That said, what I typically see is that the shooter will anticipate the shot and the shot will go low, or the pistol will recoil back and the shot will go high. In either case if the guy was 'instructing' he should have been either behind, or directly beside the girl. In ether place he would have been in a safe area. The fact he got shot means he had no business at all instructing anyone because he didn't even know where to be to insure he didn't get shot.
I can say all of this with confidence because it's exactly what I have seen when I taught my daughter to shoot. She is now 11 but had been shooting with my wife and I since she was 8. So far she has shot everything from a .22 pistol to a friends .45, and everything in between. She has been to a gun safety course at our friends gun shop ( NRA instructors) as well as being taught by me, even before she went to the course, how to handle a gun of any type. She has shot everything from my Steyr .40 pistol to her Mom's Glock 9MM, and she absolutely loves our Colt Government model .380's. Now, her favorite pistol is a .357 2" stainless revolver that we just got for her, after she fell in love shooting her mom's blued one. Granted she usually shoots .38s in it but she has shot a .357 in it. I had told her that if she was going to say she had a .357 she had to shoot a .357 round in it. The first time she shot 'her' gun she didn't know the .357 round was in it as I had snuck it in as she was loading it. So, she shot it expecting the recoil of a .38 but got surprised. Even with the surprise and the extra recoil the shot went straight downrange and hit the dirt pile, NOT back toward her or me, nor toward either side. Even when she was shooting our friends .45 she was hitting the dirt, NOT shooting back, or sideways, towards any of us that were watching.
In the end I'll say it again. If an instructor gets shot just because the shooter experienced a little more recoil than they were expecting, regardless of the shooters age, size, or anything else, it was because he/she was in the wrong position, and therefore had no business instructing anyone because their own knowledge of firearm safety was severely lacking.
Saddly what happened happened, and I feel sorry for the girl as well as the guys family. Unfortunately it was his own stupidity that got him killed, NOT the gun, and surely NOT the girl or her age.
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