From: bjpendleton@charter.net
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 19:56:37 PDT
If I remember right it was her fathers gun and she had shot it many times
before.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Fw: [MV] Miniguns
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> >I've just got to say that whoever let that kid on the weapon without
closely
> >spotting her is guilty of negligence - way over the top. Just an
> >opinion..flame away.
>
> I doubt you'll get any flames for that statement. At least nobody with
> half a brain should think any differently. Someone screwed up and it was
> very "lucky" that there was only one person killed/injured. If that
> thing fell over backwards, still blazing away, it could have been dozens.
> Like MV accidents through stupidity/
> negligence/unfamiliarity/egomania/etc, firearms accidents at organized
> events can have a profound effect on the entire hobby so it is in our
> best interests to bring obvious safety concerns like this to event
> coordinators when spotted. MAKE them fix the problem. Someone else's
> screwup might wind up killing our hobbies (or worse, killing people and
> our hobbies), which means their problem is our problem!!
>
> The tradgedy at Knob Creek could have been quite easily prevented by the
> sounds of it. I don't have a lot of experience with full auto events, but
> the ones I attended (not the NK event) anybody that small (age is not the
> relevant factor) would have to be spotted and braced. I have some great
> footage of a 5'4 (or there abouts) adult woman firing a MP5 and someone
> had to brace her shoulders or she would have fallen over! I took the
> video footage because of the funny sight of her needing to be braced for
> such a small weapon and NOT because she was hot! That's my story to my
> wife and I am sticking to it :-)
>
> Steve
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