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.
Logical reasoning for people who don't know what they're doing though. Unfortunately, the people "in charge" purported to be experts.