{"id":54814,"date":"2014-08-27T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54814"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:43:11","slug":"9-year-old-accidentally-shoots-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54814","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old accidentally shoots instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54815\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Range-goof-155x300.jpg\" alt=\"Range goof\" width=\"155\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Range-goof-155x300.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Range-goof-172x333.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Range-goof.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Folks have been sending us this link yesterday from Fox News about the 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot her instructor in the head with a fully-automatic Uzi submachine gun. No one has mentioned the caliber, but I&#8217;m guessing it was a nine millimeter version, but I know Uzis come a .380 caliber and .45 caliber version.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an unfortunate incident, but it was wholly preventable. Looking at the video, the girl didn&#8217;t have a firm grasp of the weapon and the recoil wrested the weapon from her left hand &#8211; she was obviously too small and too weak for the rate of fire of that particular weapon (600 rpm). She had good control when she fired a single shot &#8211; but, well; <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3751341111001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ronald Scott, a Phoenix-based firearms safety expert, said most shooting ranges have an age limit and strict safety rules when teaching children to shoot. He said instructors usually have their hands on guns when children are firing high-powered weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t give a 9-year-old an Uzi and expect her to control it,&#8221; Scott said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been sending us this link yesterday from Fox News about the 9-year-old girl who &hellip; <a title=\"9-year-old accidentally shoots instructor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54814\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9-year-old accidentally shoots instructor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}