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Thursday, September 4, 2014

U.S. ACCIDENTAL UZI SHOOTING A LABOUR ISSUE?



It's recently crossed my wee mind that perhaps aside from the tragedy to the shooting instructer and to the nine year old girl involved in the accidental death of the instructor; that there are some pretty serious work related health and safety issues involved here. Apparently there are areas where gun tourism is a big thing in the U.S.. Tourists from Europe or Japan with limited or no access to firearms rent guns and with some level of instruction blast away at targets. So far so good when dealing with adults in very controlled and safe environments. Things change however when it is a young child involved just as for example at fairs there is a minimum height required to get on certain rides. This is a safety concern such that safety belts etc. are not effective if the person using them is too small. Clearly a nine year old girl's arms are not as strong as a teenager's for example. Perhaps restrictions on the type of firearm, calibre and method of fire (automatic, semi-auto, single shot etc.) are long overdue. It is fairly well known and understood that even adult males have difficulty in controlling muzzle rise from the recoil of a fully automatic weapon. In hindsight the owners (and employers) of the firing range badly failed in protecting both their employee (instructor) and their customer (the child).

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