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Showing Original Post only (View all)WTF? No, seriously, WTF? [View all]
Sorry if this has been posted already but "My First Rifle"? Are they out of their mind?
I too have both a 5 year old and a 2 year old, and even if I was an avid hunter I wouldn't dream of letting them anywhere near my own gun, let alone giving them one of their own!
Five years old. Who gives a 5 year old their own gun? Who markets guns specifically to children, whether for hunting or not?
Sick, sick, sick story.
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http://news.yahoo.com/5-old-boy-shoots-2-old-sister-ky-161229579.html
5-year-old boy shoots 2-year-old sister in Ky.
By TRAVIS LOLLER | Associated Press
BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) A 5-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister to death in rural southern Kentucky with a rifle he had received as a gift last year, authorities said.
The children's mother was home at the time of the shooting Tuesday afternoon but had stepped out to the front porch for a few minutes and "she heard the gun go off," Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said. He said the rifle was kept in a corner and the family didn't realize a bullet was left inside it.
White told the Lexington Herald-Leader the boy received the .22-caliber rifle as a gift.