About 2 years ago this same type of incident happened ( ie a child with a full-auto smg) except in this one the kid shot and killed himself. I can’t imagine what would possess a sane adult to let a child handle anything but a bench-rested .22 rimfire. Thankfully the child was not physically injured and child services needs to check out the jackass parents. What comes next, kids getting to take a top fuel dragster down the strip? What a sad day for all responsible firearm owners, we’ll be tarred by the brush.
My 12-year-old Grandson learned to shoot a 22 at Boy Scout Camp, just recently! They let him go because he recently turned 12 at his last birthday. He earned a number of badges too, a badge for marksmanship was one of them. The irony is, he didn’t hurt himself at that, or any other activity, but fell off a log and broke his wrist! He had to go to a local hospital to have it set, but wanted to go back to camp afterward. He said he had a lot of fun during the week, he also said he was having fun while he was hurt (well up until that time, that part wasn’t fun, and the accident happened at last day before they went home)he wanted to be with the other kids, that’s my boy!