Liberal solution:
Posted on 09/02/2014 11:06:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A 7-year-old boy from the Bay Area was flown to the hospital after he was injured while target practicing with a .22-caliber rifle as his father stood nearby. El Dorado County Sheriff's Lt. Tim Becker told NBC affiliate KCRA in Sacramento that the boy complained of chest pain and had a "hole in his T-shirt" after pieces of a bullet apparently ricocheted into his chest on Saturday at the family's property off of Bottle Hill Road in Georgetown, near Auburn.
"The parents were watching," Becker told KCRA. "His dad was right there." Becker did not state who fired the bullet that struck the boy.
The boy's injury comes a week after another high-profile shooting involving a young child. On Aug. 25, a 9-year-old girl at a shooting range outside Las Vegas accidentally killed her instructor when she lost control of the Uzi he was showing her how to use. The sheriff in that case said no citations would be issued and no charges would be filed because the shooting range is a licensed, legal operation.
The girl's accidental shooting reignited a debate for some about how old people should be when they pick up a firearm.
In El Dorado County, sheriff's deputies received a call from Cal-Fire that the boy, who lives in the Bay Area, had been injured while shooting targets at a range the family had constructed on their wooded property.
He and his dad were shooting targets positioned about 40 yards away, the sheriff's department said in a statement. Many relatives were behind father and son, watching them. The boy had a single shot .22 caliber bolt action youth rifle, and his father was shooting a "larger caliber rifle," the sheriff's statement said.
No one in the family noticed any bullets ricocheting. But at some boy, the boy grabbed his chest and complained of pain, the sheriff's statement said. A preliminary investigation shows pieces of a bullet did indeed ricochet, hitting the child, investigators told KCRA.
His father checked his son's chest and spotted a small hole in his T-shirt, and that his son was bleeding from his chest.
The boy's father immediately took his son to the Georgetown fire station, were he was picked up by a helicopter and transported to UC Davis Medical Center near Sacramento. The boy's condition is not known at this time, though KCRA reported that he is expected to survive.
Detectives were assigned to determine how the boy received his injuries.
Becker said that "preliminarily the deputies that went out there said that the guns weren't being pointed at anybody. There was plenty of supervision there. They had a pretty good range set up."
Still, Becker said that while it all looked "relatively safe, firearms are tools, just like any tools. People get hurt by tools and accidents happen."
Great news for gun-grabbing liberals.
Can you hear it, everyone? That loud screeching noise and cackling? It’s the sound of Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer’s hands rubbing together while laughing.
It’s good to see that America’s kids are learning how to shoot. I have no doubt that they see full well that the world is going to be a very dangerous place in their lifetimes.
So many accidents at the range involving CHILDREN!
IT’S AN EPIDEMIC!!!! We need Congressional Hearings and ‘Range Safety’ legislation NOW!!!
“Congress Please DO SOMETHING!!!!!”...
(just predicting the tone of the news media)
Liberal solution:
To get a ricochet from 40 yards, it must have been the father’s firearm.
Prayers for the youngster. On the other hand, where did they get .22 ammo anyway? I just inventoried mine and it’s all accounted for.
Open Toed Shoes!? Are you mad? Child protective services will be notified!
Prayers up for the injured boy and his family.
Hand-waving panic over a couple of gun incidents. Meanwhile, the home bathtub continues to quietly take out hundreds with nary a murmur.
Key word, quietly. Bathtubs do not make loud noises.
I’ve gotten spall when shooting jacketed bullets at a lead target. It’s not the greatest thing, but unless you get a piece in your eye, it might bleed a little, but it’s not that dangerous.
I was using a cold chisel and had a lentil shaped chunk of the hammer shoot under my skin, travel an inch and a half, and cook its way out. Hammers and chisels are dangerous, and should be controlled.
How close was the target and was it concrete?
Hard wood can cause a richochet.
A friend was shooting a center fire handgun at a floating five inch thick, 1.5 foot long piece of Jambolan Plum tree when the jacket of the 9mm hit him.
Fortunately, no real damage, and the lesson was cheaply learned.
Anything about all the kids in Chi. who are targeted on purpose?
Maybe he was using Russian steel-bullet ammo. They bounce around instead of deforming like lead.
beats me. it’s to spendy to let my 7 year old practice with. He gets to practice with his BB gun... He’s a darn good shot to.
With his BB catcher (basically a cardboard box) he normally finds 9 out of 10 BB’s anyways.
Could be steel core ammo. But I’ll bet he was shooting at steel targets when he got a bounce-back.
ouch
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