whoa piang... sad accident..
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Asian 9 year old gal kill range instructor
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U truly are a stupid cunt. Maybe u should read the second amendment to the US constitution before u open your asshole up to be fucked.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed
No where does it say that u have the right to bear arms against the tyranny of the govt. It says U have the right to bear arms in order to be part of the militia. Because most people do not belong to militias now, its interpreted as the right to bear arm to defend yourself. Cocksuckers like u like to be ass raped by some niggers in a bad neighbourhood. Just say so.
ISIS and USA are like long lost twin brothers.
ISIS is full of religious trashes kick out of Iraq/rest of the world because of their crazy religious views in 21th century.
USA is full of religious trashes kick out of Europe because of their crazy religious views in 18th century.
ISIS is full of religious trashes kick out of Iraq/rest of the world because of their crazy religious views in 21th century.
USA is full of religious trashes kick out of Europe because of their crazy religious views in 18th century.
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Her family members were focused on the girl because they thought she was injured by the gun's recoil and didn't immediately realize instructor Charles Vacca had been shot until one of his colleagues ran over to him.
The family, whose hometown hasn't been revealed by investigators, had taken a shuttle on Aug. 25 from Las Vegas about 60 miles south to the Last Stop range in White Hills, Arizona.
The report did not say why the family had gone to the range or why they let the girl handle the Uzi.
After arriving, the girl, her parents, sister and brother took a monster truck ride before heading out to the shooting range.
The girl's father was the first one in the party to handle a weapon. After he fired shots, Vacca instructed the girl on how to shoot the gun, showed her a shooting stance, and helped her fire a few rounds.
Then, he stepped back and let her hold the Uzi by herself. She fired the gun, and its recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, killing Vacca with a shot to the head, according to the report.
The girl dropped the Uzi, and Vacca fell to the ground. The girl ran toward her family, who huddled around her as she held her shoulder. Another instructor rushed over to help to Vacca. The other children were then taken away from the range, according to the report.
The report describes the family as shaken by the accident.
Prosecutors are not filing charges in the case. Arizona's workplace safety agency is investigating the shooting-range death.
County prosecutors say the instructor was probably the most criminally negligent person involved in the accident for having allowed the child to hold the gun without enough training. They also said the parents and child weren't criminally culpable.
The girl's mother had video-recorded the accident on her phone.
"All right, go ahead and give me one shot," Vacca tells the girl in the video. He then cheers when she fires one round at the target.
"All right full auto," Vacca says. The video, which does not show the actual incident, ends with a series of shots being heard.
The shooting set off a powerful debate over youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle a submachine gun.
Sam Scarmardo, the range's operator, has said the parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules and were standing nearby when the accident occurred. He also had said he never had a safety problem before at the range and said his policy of allowing children 8 and older to fire guns under adult supervision and an instructor's watchful eye is standard industry practice, though he noted his policies are under review.
Vacca's ex-wife and children said last week that they harbored no ill feelings toward the girl or her family. Instead, they feel sorry for the child and want to comfort her.
Her family members were focused on the girl because they thought she was injured by the gun's recoil and didn't immediately realize instructor Charles Vacca had been shot until one of his colleagues ran over to him.
The family, whose hometown hasn't been revealed by investigators, had taken a shuttle on Aug. 25 from Las Vegas about 60 miles south to the Last Stop range in White Hills, Arizona.
The report did not say why the family had gone to the range or why they let the girl handle the Uzi.
After arriving, the girl, her parents, sister and brother took a monster truck ride before heading out to the shooting range.
The girl's father was the first one in the party to handle a weapon. After he fired shots, Vacca instructed the girl on how to shoot the gun, showed her a shooting stance, and helped her fire a few rounds.
Then, he stepped back and let her hold the Uzi by herself. She fired the gun, and its recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, killing Vacca with a shot to the head, according to the report.
The girl dropped the Uzi, and Vacca fell to the ground. The girl ran toward her family, who huddled around her as she held her shoulder. Another instructor rushed over to help to Vacca. The other children were then taken away from the range, according to the report.
The report describes the family as shaken by the accident.
Prosecutors are not filing charges in the case. Arizona's workplace safety agency is investigating the shooting-range death.
County prosecutors say the instructor was probably the most criminally negligent person involved in the accident for having allowed the child to hold the gun without enough training. They also said the parents and child weren't criminally culpable.
The girl's mother had video-recorded the accident on her phone.
"All right, go ahead and give me one shot," Vacca tells the girl in the video. He then cheers when she fires one round at the target.
"All right full auto," Vacca says. The video, which does not show the actual incident, ends with a series of shots being heard.
The shooting set off a powerful debate over youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle a submachine gun.
Sam Scarmardo, the range's operator, has said the parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules and were standing nearby when the accident occurred. He also had said he never had a safety problem before at the range and said his policy of allowing children 8 and older to fire guns under adult supervision and an instructor's watchful eye is standard industry practice, though he noted his policies are under review.
Vacca's ex-wife and children said last week that they harbored no ill feelings toward the girl or her family. Instead, they feel sorry for the child and want to comfort her.
SAN DIEGO — The accidental killing of a shooting range instructor by a 9-year-old girl learning to shoot an Uzi unleashed a storm of criticism and anger, with much of it aimed at her parents.
But the ex-wife and children of instructor Charles Vacca say they harbor no ill feelings toward the girl and her family. Instead, they feel sorry for the child and want to write her a letter to comfort her.
“That’s truly how we feel,” Vacca’s ex-wife, Anamarie, said by phone.
Charles Vacca was standing next to the girl when she squeezed the trigger at the Last Stop range in White Hills, Ariz., about 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
The recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, and the 39-year-old Vacca was fatally shot once in the head.
Anamarie Vacca said she has not spoken to the girl or her parents since the accident Monday, but her children want to write the letter, “knowing their family has to grieve through the same process.”
The identities of the girl and her family have not been released.
“I know we’re going to let her know to not revolve her life around it,” Anamarie Vacca said about the accident.
Groups seeking to reduce gun violence have said it was reckless to let the girl handle such a powerful weapon and are calling for tighter regulations regarding children and guns.
But in Las Vegas, a shooting range owner with 30 years of experience said Friday regulators should not overreact to the tragic accidental shooting
Bob Irwin, owner of The Gun Store, said it is the first time he has ever heard of a range master being killed.
“Statistically this is a nonevent,” he said. “We don’t need to change any laws for one incident.”
Irwin said at his range, instructors have helped children as young as 5 shoot guns. But when a gun has too much recoil or is otherwise too much for a client, or the shooter is a child, the range masters hold on to the clients and essentially just let them pull the trigger, he said.
“We’ve never had a range master killed or even shot,” Irwin said. “We’ve never had a customer shot. This never happens. It has never happened before in Nevada or anywhere else.”
Sam Scarmardo, who operates the outdoor shooting range in the Arizona desert, has said the parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules and were standing nearby, video-recording their daughter, when the accident happened.
Investigators released 27 seconds of the footage showing the girl from behind as she fires at a black-silhouette target. The footage, which does not show the instructor actually being shot, helped feed the furor on social media and beyond.
Prosecutors say they do not plan to file charges.
But the ex-wife and children of instructor Charles Vacca say they harbor no ill feelings toward the girl and her family. Instead, they feel sorry for the child and want to write her a letter to comfort her.
“That’s truly how we feel,” Vacca’s ex-wife, Anamarie, said by phone.
Charles Vacca was standing next to the girl when she squeezed the trigger at the Last Stop range in White Hills, Ariz., about 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
The recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, and the 39-year-old Vacca was fatally shot once in the head.
Anamarie Vacca said she has not spoken to the girl or her parents since the accident Monday, but her children want to write the letter, “knowing their family has to grieve through the same process.”
The identities of the girl and her family have not been released.
“I know we’re going to let her know to not revolve her life around it,” Anamarie Vacca said about the accident.
Groups seeking to reduce gun violence have said it was reckless to let the girl handle such a powerful weapon and are calling for tighter regulations regarding children and guns.
But in Las Vegas, a shooting range owner with 30 years of experience said Friday regulators should not overreact to the tragic accidental shooting
Bob Irwin, owner of The Gun Store, said it is the first time he has ever heard of a range master being killed.
“Statistically this is a nonevent,” he said. “We don’t need to change any laws for one incident.”
Irwin said at his range, instructors have helped children as young as 5 shoot guns. But when a gun has too much recoil or is otherwise too much for a client, or the shooter is a child, the range masters hold on to the clients and essentially just let them pull the trigger, he said.
“We’ve never had a range master killed or even shot,” Irwin said. “We’ve never had a customer shot. This never happens. It has never happened before in Nevada or anywhere else.”
Sam Scarmardo, who operates the outdoor shooting range in the Arizona desert, has said the parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules and were standing nearby, video-recording their daughter, when the accident happened.
Investigators released 27 seconds of the footage showing the girl from behind as she fires at a black-silhouette target. The footage, which does not show the instructor actually being shot, helped feed the furor on social media and beyond.
Prosecutors say they do not plan to file charges.
A 9-year-old girl in Arizona being taught to fire an Uzi machine gun lost control of the weapon and killed her shooting instructor. The Internet has a video.
This is the kind of horrible incident that invites overheated debate. Herewith four blunt points—framed as questions and intended to shed light before the ideologues go ballistic.
1. Wait, a 9-year-old can get her hands on an Uzi? Yes. In most places, it’s legal for children under adult supervision to fire guns. The operator of the Arizona range permitted kids as young as 8 to shoot. The little girl in this case was brought to the range by her parents. Instructor Charles Vacca can be seen on the video released by police eagerly explaining to the youngster how to hold and point the Uzi, a potent weapon originally made for the Israeli military. After the girl fired a single round in semiautomatic mode, Vacca switched the gun to fully automatic and urged her to let loose. A fully automatic weapon, referred to as a machine gun, spews rounds continuously as long as the trigger is depressed. The Uzi’s recoil apparently proved too much for the girl in Arizona, causing the barrel to drift up and to her left, where Vacca was standing close by.
BLOG: America Has Hit ‘Peak Gun,’ and the Obama Gun Bubble Is Bursting
2. Machine guns are legal? Yes and no. Civilians can’t walk into a gun store and buy a new fully automatic weapon. But in 1986, when the law was tightened, lots of older machine guns were grandfathered in, meaning it’s legal to possess them if they’re properly registered with the federal government. Selling or otherwise transferring an automatic weapon is subject to much stricter oversight than a standard firearm transaction. Still, with enough persistence, a clean record, and $15,000 or so (they’re expensive), it’s possible to acquire a late-model machine gun in most states. Firing ranges in Arizona, Nevada, and other gun-friendly places have made machine-gun tourism a lucrative business. I’ve fired fully automatic weapons at a place in Las Vegas. It was fun and a little scary, as I imagine driving a race car at high speed on a closed track would be.
3. So should a little kid be firing an Uzi or any other machine gun? No. Not even with adult supervision. It’s one thing for grandpa to show a physically competent adolescent how to pull the trigger on a .22, which has gentle recoil. In many American families, guns are a part of growing up, and learning to fire a rifle needn’t be any more dangerous than learning to drive a car within the speed limit. Both require careful supervision and a degree of a maturity. Both require risk-benefit analysis better performed by adults. It might be cute to see a 9-year-old driving the family sedan, but I wouldn’t want to be sitting in the passenger seat or standing nearby.
4. Does the Arizona episode mean we live in a whacko gun culture? Those saying yes are going to remind you of a 2008 case in which an 8-year-old Massachusetts boy—under adult supervision at a gun club—accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi and died. Those saying no, guns are as American as apple pie, will point out, accurately, that for years, the number of accidental shootings has been declining, along with overall gun deaths. By those measures, we’re becoming a safer country, even as some parents defy common sense and put machine guns in the hands of little kids.
This is the kind of horrible incident that invites overheated debate. Herewith four blunt points—framed as questions and intended to shed light before the ideologues go ballistic.
1. Wait, a 9-year-old can get her hands on an Uzi? Yes. In most places, it’s legal for children under adult supervision to fire guns. The operator of the Arizona range permitted kids as young as 8 to shoot. The little girl in this case was brought to the range by her parents. Instructor Charles Vacca can be seen on the video released by police eagerly explaining to the youngster how to hold and point the Uzi, a potent weapon originally made for the Israeli military. After the girl fired a single round in semiautomatic mode, Vacca switched the gun to fully automatic and urged her to let loose. A fully automatic weapon, referred to as a machine gun, spews rounds continuously as long as the trigger is depressed. The Uzi’s recoil apparently proved too much for the girl in Arizona, causing the barrel to drift up and to her left, where Vacca was standing close by.
BLOG: America Has Hit ‘Peak Gun,’ and the Obama Gun Bubble Is Bursting
2. Machine guns are legal? Yes and no. Civilians can’t walk into a gun store and buy a new fully automatic weapon. But in 1986, when the law was tightened, lots of older machine guns were grandfathered in, meaning it’s legal to possess them if they’re properly registered with the federal government. Selling or otherwise transferring an automatic weapon is subject to much stricter oversight than a standard firearm transaction. Still, with enough persistence, a clean record, and $15,000 or so (they’re expensive), it’s possible to acquire a late-model machine gun in most states. Firing ranges in Arizona, Nevada, and other gun-friendly places have made machine-gun tourism a lucrative business. I’ve fired fully automatic weapons at a place in Las Vegas. It was fun and a little scary, as I imagine driving a race car at high speed on a closed track would be.
3. So should a little kid be firing an Uzi or any other machine gun? No. Not even with adult supervision. It’s one thing for grandpa to show a physically competent adolescent how to pull the trigger on a .22, which has gentle recoil. In many American families, guns are a part of growing up, and learning to fire a rifle needn’t be any more dangerous than learning to drive a car within the speed limit. Both require careful supervision and a degree of a maturity. Both require risk-benefit analysis better performed by adults. It might be cute to see a 9-year-old driving the family sedan, but I wouldn’t want to be sitting in the passenger seat or standing nearby.
4. Does the Arizona episode mean we live in a whacko gun culture? Those saying yes are going to remind you of a 2008 case in which an 8-year-old Massachusetts boy—under adult supervision at a gun club—accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi and died. Those saying no, guns are as American as apple pie, will point out, accurately, that for years, the number of accidental shootings has been declining, along with overall gun deaths. By those measures, we’re becoming a safer country, even as some parents defy common sense and put machine guns in the hands of little kids.
care to show what firearms u carry? Best is got pics.gpgt. if no hor, please go back pcc.
the python 357 is my favorite on and off the range. only a 6-shooter revolver, but very accurate with scope and low recoil due to weight balance.
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wonder if the ex-wifes was against her hubby touching little girls like that or firing weapons.
wonder if the ex-wifes was against her hubby touching little girls like that or firing weapons.
As a proud PAP supporter, you should be using SAR 21.
the sar 21 is an assault weapon with auto feature, and therefore it's banned in california public ranges.
SAR 21 is so heay and inaccurate. Israeli TAVOR.
You musn't say that ...PAP's product is always the best.
i can criticise. PAP took their products from elsewhere.
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The family a 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot her gun instructor when she lost control of a powerful Uzi submachine gun said today they are "devastated" that their "brief excursion" on their summer vacation turned into a "life changing tragedy."
The family issued a statement through their lawyer after Arizona police released a report of the Aug. 25 shooting accident in which the girl complained that the weapon was "too much" for her to handle and complained that the gun's recoil had hurt her shoulder.
The parents huddled around the girl, comforting her briefly, unaware that the shots had fatally struck instructor Charles Vacca, according to the police incident report.
Just hours after the report was released, the girl's family broke their silence through a New Jersey lawyer.
"They are devastated by this accident that turned what was supposed to be a unique and brief excursion from their summer vacation into a life changing tragedy," the statement read.
"Words cannot express the family's sadness about the accidental shooting of Charles Vacca. They prayed day and night that he would survive his injury, and they continue to pray for his family during this terribly difficult time," the statement read.
The police incident report gave details of the family's actions when they took a monster truck from Las Vegas to Arizona Last Stop, a recreational facility that houses a gun range called Bullets and Burgers.
They told responding officers how they huddled around their daughter as she gripped her shoulder, saying she was injured by the gun's powerful recoil after she fired the automatic weapon. The parents comforted their injured daughter, not realizing at that point that she had fatally shot her instructor, Charles Vacca.
The girl's mother told police that she saw her daughter drop the gun before turning towards her parents and telling them "the gun was too much for her and it hurt her shoulder."
The Mohave County Sheriff's Office has released their incident report, which includes descriptions of the shooting from both of the girl's parents.
"[The girl's mother] said no one knew Vacca was shot until the other instructor ran over," the report reads.
Vacca was identified in the report as a range master at the facility and he had been working with the New Jersey family while they were on vacation in Las Vegas.
One of Vacca's colleagues, a range instructor, told police that he was standing by when the shooting happened and he saw the girl, whose name was redacted from the police report because of her age, shoot the mini 9 mm Uzi.
The instructor "saw the girl start to shoot the weapon and due to the recoil, the weapon went straight up in the air and crossed the path where Charles had his head," the report states.
The instructor rushed to Vacca's side after he collapsed and began applying pressure to the head wound. The girl's father said that their first indication that something was wrong only came when the instructor ran over to Vacca.
The incident was filmed by the girl’s parents as they stood behind both she and Vacca and recorded her on their iPhone. The girl’s mother shared that video with police as soon as they spoke with her at the gun range’s restaurant.
No charges have been filed in the case and responding officers noted that they believed it was an accidental shooting. The range allows anyone above the age of 8 to shoot automatic weapons if the instructor believes they are suitable.
The family a 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot her gun instructor when she lost control of a powerful Uzi submachine gun said today they are "devastated" that their "brief excursion" on their summer vacation turned into a "life changing tragedy."
The family issued a statement through their lawyer after Arizona police released a report of the Aug. 25 shooting accident in which the girl complained that the weapon was "too much" for her to handle and complained that the gun's recoil had hurt her shoulder.
The parents huddled around the girl, comforting her briefly, unaware that the shots had fatally struck instructor Charles Vacca, according to the police incident report.
Just hours after the report was released, the girl's family broke their silence through a New Jersey lawyer.
"They are devastated by this accident that turned what was supposed to be a unique and brief excursion from their summer vacation into a life changing tragedy," the statement read.
"Words cannot express the family's sadness about the accidental shooting of Charles Vacca. They prayed day and night that he would survive his injury, and they continue to pray for his family during this terribly difficult time," the statement read.
The police incident report gave details of the family's actions when they took a monster truck from Las Vegas to Arizona Last Stop, a recreational facility that houses a gun range called Bullets and Burgers.
They told responding officers how they huddled around their daughter as she gripped her shoulder, saying she was injured by the gun's powerful recoil after she fired the automatic weapon. The parents comforted their injured daughter, not realizing at that point that she had fatally shot her instructor, Charles Vacca.
The girl's mother told police that she saw her daughter drop the gun before turning towards her parents and telling them "the gun was too much for her and it hurt her shoulder."
The Mohave County Sheriff's Office has released their incident report, which includes descriptions of the shooting from both of the girl's parents.
"[The girl's mother] said no one knew Vacca was shot until the other instructor ran over," the report reads.
Vacca was identified in the report as a range master at the facility and he had been working with the New Jersey family while they were on vacation in Las Vegas.
One of Vacca's colleagues, a range instructor, told police that he was standing by when the shooting happened and he saw the girl, whose name was redacted from the police report because of her age, shoot the mini 9 mm Uzi.
The instructor "saw the girl start to shoot the weapon and due to the recoil, the weapon went straight up in the air and crossed the path where Charles had his head," the report states.
The instructor rushed to Vacca's side after he collapsed and began applying pressure to the head wound. The girl's father said that their first indication that something was wrong only came when the instructor ran over to Vacca.
The incident was filmed by the girl’s parents as they stood behind both she and Vacca and recorded her on their iPhone. The girl’s mother shared that video with police as soon as they spoke with her at the gun range’s restaurant.
No charges have been filed in the case and responding officers noted that they believed it was an accidental shooting. The range allows anyone above the age of 8 to shoot automatic weapons if the instructor believes they are suitable.
Newly released 911 audio paints a vivid sound picture of the desperate scene at an Arizona gun range where a 9-year-old girl accidentally shot her instructor with an Uzi, killing him.
It was also revealed Tuesday in a police report that the girl told investigators the gun was too much for her and that it had hurt her shoulder.
Her distraught parents, Alex and Alison Maclachlan, told investigators their attention was first focused on their daughter, who appeared to be hurt from the weapon's recoil, and did not realize that Charles Vacca had been shot until one of his colleagues ran over.
911 caller: I have a gun range officer that got shot in the head ... We're at Arizona Last Stop.
Operator: Is he breathing?
Caller: Yes, he's having convulsions.
The dispatcher advises the caller to keep pressure on the head wound, and to not remove a towel being used to staunch the bleeding. The caller is told to just place another cloth on top of it.
In the background, voices can be heard saying, "Keep breathing, keep breathing. Come on, keep breathing."
At one point, a man can be heard saying, "I don't think he's going to make it."
Vacca died after being airlifted to Las Vegas hospital.
The family, whose hometown hasn't been revealed by investigators, had taken a shuttle on Aug. 25 from Las Vegas about 60 miles south to the Last Stop range in White Hills, Ariz. Once arriving there, the girl, her parents, a sister and a brother took a monster truck ride before heading out to the shooting range.
The girl's father was the first one in the party to handle a weapon. After the father fired shots, Vacca showed the girl how to shoot the gun, showed her a shooting stance and helped her fire off a few rounds.
Then, he switched the weapon to automatic, and stepped back and let her hold the Uzi by herself. She fired the gun, and its recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, striking Vacca in the head, according to the report.
The girl dropped the Uzi and Vacca fell to the ground.
At first, the family focused on the girl, who was holding her shoulder. Another instructor rushed over to help Vacca. The other children were then taken away from the range, according to the report.
Prosecutors are not filing charges in the case.
County prosecutors say the instructor was probably the most criminally negligent person involved in the accident for having allowed the child to hold the gun without enough training. They also said the parents and child weren't criminally culpable.
Kevin Walsh, a New Jersey attorney for the Maclachlan family, said in a statement, "Words cannot express the family's sadness about the accidental shooting of Charles Vacca. They prayed day and night that he would survive his injury, and they continue to pray for his family during this terribly difficult time. (The Maclachlans) also asks for the public's prayers for their own family."
It was also revealed Tuesday in a police report that the girl told investigators the gun was too much for her and that it had hurt her shoulder.
Her distraught parents, Alex and Alison Maclachlan, told investigators their attention was first focused on their daughter, who appeared to be hurt from the weapon's recoil, and did not realize that Charles Vacca had been shot until one of his colleagues ran over.
911 caller: I have a gun range officer that got shot in the head ... We're at Arizona Last Stop.
Operator: Is he breathing?
Caller: Yes, he's having convulsions.
The dispatcher advises the caller to keep pressure on the head wound, and to not remove a towel being used to staunch the bleeding. The caller is told to just place another cloth on top of it.
In the background, voices can be heard saying, "Keep breathing, keep breathing. Come on, keep breathing."
At one point, a man can be heard saying, "I don't think he's going to make it."
Vacca died after being airlifted to Las Vegas hospital.
The family, whose hometown hasn't been revealed by investigators, had taken a shuttle on Aug. 25 from Las Vegas about 60 miles south to the Last Stop range in White Hills, Ariz. Once arriving there, the girl, her parents, a sister and a brother took a monster truck ride before heading out to the shooting range.
The girl's father was the first one in the party to handle a weapon. After the father fired shots, Vacca showed the girl how to shoot the gun, showed her a shooting stance and helped her fire off a few rounds.
Then, he switched the weapon to automatic, and stepped back and let her hold the Uzi by herself. She fired the gun, and its recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, striking Vacca in the head, according to the report.
The girl dropped the Uzi and Vacca fell to the ground.
At first, the family focused on the girl, who was holding her shoulder. Another instructor rushed over to help Vacca. The other children were then taken away from the range, according to the report.
Prosecutors are not filing charges in the case.
County prosecutors say the instructor was probably the most criminally negligent person involved in the accident for having allowed the child to hold the gun without enough training. They also said the parents and child weren't criminally culpable.
Kevin Walsh, a New Jersey attorney for the Maclachlan family, said in a statement, "Words cannot express the family's sadness about the accidental shooting of Charles Vacca. They prayed day and night that he would survive his injury, and they continue to pray for his family during this terribly difficult time. (The Maclachlans) also asks for the public's prayers for their own family."
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