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Originally Posted by Raven
a weapon with that much fire power...if allowed to fired by an eight year old kid should have be (secured) and bolted into a stationary device where recoil could not even be a factor..... 
i remember firing a twenty two rifle up in Maine at age ten and the safety precautions were HUGE.
that's a real shame this happened in what appeared to be a controlled environment. |
Not an appropriate place to mention this, but I'd call it the "taser" effect more than anything...
Kid's shocked, can't let go of trigger, etc.
You have to wonder though, cyclic rate of 600/min.
32 round clip max, probably 16rd for a kid of that age (assuming that they weren't being absolutely moronic, which apparently they were, but I'll be generous in their grief).
10rds/second.
So, in 3.2 or 1.6 seconds with adult supervision AND A STOCK, the weapon managed to go from pointed forward to pointed backward?
Something about this story doesn't add up.
For what it's worth, though, my grandpa let me shoot one of his friend's 10" barrel .454's when I was 12. With two adults holding down my arms my arms kicked up two feet from benchrest.
I could go through 30rds on his 9mm Beretta 92 as fast as I could pull the trigger, and I probably never got further than 1ft above starting point at the same age.