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After 8-Year-Old Boy Shoots Self With Uzi Machine Gun, Advocates Demand Minimum Age Requirement for Machine Gun Use
October 28, 2008The unintentional shooting death of an 8-year-old boy, Christopher Bizilj, with a fully automatic Uzi machine gun at the Westfield Sportsman's Club Machine Gun Shoot, is further evidence as to why effective regulations must be enacted to protect young children from gun violence. At Sunday's event, Christopher was firing a 9-mm Micro Uzi machine gun when he lost control of the weapon and shot himself in the head. The event organizers boasted in an advertisement that the $5 entry fee was waived for children under age 16 and there was "no age limit or licenses required to shoot machine guns." Full release.