I’ve read multiple threads on FR about this tragedy. As a class III Uzi owner and father of two daughters that have fired full auto Uzi’s at this same age, I must break my silence. This was not an Uzi which weighs 8 pounds empty, fires from the open bolt and has a rate of fire of approx 600 rounds per minute, but from the wire stock visible in the video it appears to be a Mini-Uzi weighing just under 6 pounds with a 950 rds per min rate of fire. I would never allow my daughters to fire such a weapon full auto with more than 3 rounds in the mag. But a full size, slower rate of fire UZI is perfectly controllable by anyone able to shoulder the firearm. Freepers are correct that this tragedy could have been averted with common sense that this was too much gun for this child and mistakes were made on the firing line, but get the facts right. This was not an UZI but a lighter, hotter MINI-UZI. BTW, the Micro-Uzi weighs 3.3 pounds with a 1250 rd per min rate of fire... I won’t even fire that full auto.
A friend told me of an incident here years ago (1953) before we moved here.
A soldier, back from Korea, managed to smuggle in a full auto PPSh Russian sub machine gun and a loaded drum magazine. His dad wanted to fire it, and the instant he pulled the trigger it jumped and scared him so bad he threw the gun down and he jumped back away from it like he was snake bit.
I have no idea of who it was, but the way people took care of their guns back then it is probably a rusted up piece of junk now.