Don’t these people keep up on current events? This has happened before. Does the range owner live under a rock? No 9 year old girl or boy should be discharging a fully automatic firearm.
“No 9 year old girl or boy should be discharging a fully automatic firearm.”
That’s what everyone is saying here. To give give the instructor the bennfit of the doubt, he may have had some other stronger children shooting well without his assistance, and became complacent thinking this one could also.