Posted on 12/04/2008 3:09:36 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle.
The club where the fair was held also was charged. The fair had promised shooters would have certified instructors in an advertisement, but District Attorney William Bennett said the child, Christopher Bizilj, was supervised by an uncertified 15-year-old boy.
Christopher, of Ashford, Conn., lost control of the 9mm micro submachine gun as it recoiled while he was firing at a pumpkin Oct. 26 at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman's Club in western Massachusetts.
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Yeah, you can do some weird stuff if brass hits you in the eye or down the collar. Best to make sure it doesn’t do that as best you can.
That would be 1800 rounds per minute. That sounds awfully fast.
You are right....uzis cycle at 600 rounds per minute...still damn fast.
I can’t believe they thought it was safer because it was smaller. Recoil is inversely proportional to mass, you idiots! This micro-Uzi thing is so light and has such a high cyclic rate that it’s hard to think of a gun that would be more dangerous for an inexperienced kid to fire. He’d have been fine shooting a big heavy SMG like a Tommy gun.
The micro version of the Uzi has a cyclic of 1250 rounds/min or more than 20 per second. It’s one of the fastest little buzz saws made. You barely even hear the individual discharges.
The Uzi fires 600 rounds/min...
Correction : The micro is 1250 rpm...mini is 950 rpm...
Standard is 600 rpm...
Logical reasoning for people who don't know what they're doing though. Unfortunately, the people "in charge" purported to be experts.
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