Los Angeles – California Boy, 7, Hurt At Firing Range Owned By His Family

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    Los Angeles – A 7-year-old boy was wounded at a private firing range at his family’s property in Northern California while shooting targets with his father and had to be airlifted to a hospital, police said on Tuesday.

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    Saturday’s incident comes amid renewed U.S. debate over gun safety and children following last week’s accidental fatal shooting of an Arizona gun range instructor by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi submachine gun.

    In the Northern California incident, the boy had been shooting targets with a .22 caliber youth rifle at a property the boy’s family owns in the rural community of Georgetown, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

    A man with a large-caliber rifle had been firing at targets from a few yards away from where the boy and his father were standing, the statement added.

    Suddenly, the boy grabbed his chest and his father saw the child had a small hole in his T-shirt and was bleeding from the chest, police said.

    The boy was driven to a fire station and then airlifted to a local hospital. He was released from the facility on Sunday, said El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sergeant Chris Felton.

    It was not immediately clear if the boy was struck by a bullet or injured in another way, and investigators are still seeking to determine how he was hurt, Felton said.

    The boy and the man had both been shooting downrange and none of the family members watching the boy and the man shooting at targets noticed any ricochets, police said.


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    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    9 years ago

    The insanity of ISIS and the insanity of a father teaching a 7 year old boy to use fire weapons instead of reading books or doing puzzles are the same . An insane world produces a generalized insanity

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    9 years ago

    In California a seven-year-old can shoot a gun. He cannot however ride a bike without a helmet.

    Benny
    Benny
    9 years ago

    We need to forbid the cars on the streets, since so many accidents happened, many of them are fatal!

    Benny
    Benny
    9 years ago

    To #3
    You never drov

    Benny
    Benny
    9 years ago

    To #4
    You never drove before you were 16?
    Many people did.
    This kids didn’t walk on the streets with guns in the hands,
    They were in the specially provided places for training, things happen, we should train the stuff better or adjust the rules.
    I was at the shooting range many times, it’s more safer place that in Manhatten next to a policemen (who can wound a dozen of bystanders, and he shoots 45th caliber, not baby’s .22).

    To #5
    I am not sure if I should respond retarded people.

    Benny
    Benny
    9 years ago

    Be the way, the little rickoshet stuff flying – it could scratch a little, happened many times,
    It happens in a warking place where they cut wood and metals many more times, keep your safety glasses on.