Reply #23: Almost all firearms kick back AND up when fired. An uzi is a very light,

[mudplanet]

short machine gun, really a "machine pistol" and there's very little weight in front because on most models of uzis there isn't much more than four inches of barrel.

So when you fire it, it kicks up and back a little, and because it's on automatic firing about ten rounds a second, each subsequent round causes the gun to kick up and back just a little more, describing an arc of fire from perpendicular in front of the child, up to vertical and then over, at which point the child's head came into the line of fire.

I doubt it took more than a second to happen. He pulled the trigger, there was the sound of a dozen rapid shots (ten rounds a second is so fast that it doesn't really sound like gunshots but more like a giant ripppppppppping sound) and the child was on the ground dead. They probably thought it had just knocked him down until they saw the blood.

Gun people sometimes get a kick out of watching the uninitiated shoot a powerful weapon and seeing the surprise on the shooter's face.