An 8-year-old boy, Christopher Bizilj (Bah-SEAL) of Ashford, Conn., died after he accidentally shot himself in the head at a gun club during the annual “Great New England Pumpkin Shoot”, which features automatic weapons. It appears that organizers (or the boy’s parents) see no problem is handing an eight-year-old a fully loaded, fully automatic Uzi. At a minimum, one would think that an adult would hold or secure the weapon when a young boy was pulling the trigger on a submachine gun (shown to the left).
The terrible accident occurred at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club. Police reported that “witnesses state that he was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury.”
Obviously, this would be a good case for liability except for the fact that the father was present and likely signed waivers as a participant.
Unbelievable that this was PERFECTLY LEGAL! ARe these people insane? The father should be tried FOR MURDER. Nothing less. And children have NO BUSINESS HANDLING GUNS OR AUTOMATIC WEAPONS especially Israeli military weapons like Uzi’s which most adults can’t even handle!!!
OH, AND THE NRA – THAT MODERATE ORGANIZATION — WAS SILENT ON THIS.