An Arizona lawmaker this week said that she plans to introduce legislation that would help keep automatic weapons of of the hands of children after a 9-year-old accidentally shot and killed an instructor with an Uzi at an Arizona shooting range.
“I’m disgusted that we even need such a law — that parents can’t be trusted to not give a machine gun to a 9-year-old girl,” Rep. Victoria Steele (D) told the Phoenix New Times.
Steele has not yet drawn up the legislation, but plans to propose a ban on giving a machine gun to anyone under the age of 16. She said that legislators in Connecticut passed similar legislation banning shooting ranges from giving machine guns to kids following an incident with an 8-year-old boy.
Steele cannot introduce a bill until the next legislative session in 2015, so she must be re-elected in November in order to propose the bill.
Pictured above: An instructor at a Las Vegas shooting range shows a customer how to fire a machine gun.
This is just as bad as finally requiring the Ferguson police to wear cameras.
“I’m disgusted that we even need such a law — that parents can’t be trusted to not give a machine gun to a 9-year-old girl,” Rep. Victoria Steele (D) told the Phoenix New Times.
Blame the range owner, the idiotic parents thought they were treating their daughter to a ride at fucking Disneyland.
Well so much for freedom and liberty! Fuckin’ gun-grabbing commie.
First they came for my child’s machine gun and I said nothing.
I, as a resident of Arizona, also blame my state’s legislature for a whole series of really stupidly lax gun laws. the legislature here thinks it’s perfectly fine to carry a gun into a bar (enacted), or a school (passed but vetoed by the governor), and they did away with permits for concealed carry and the attendant gun safety and gun law classes that used to be required to get the now non-existent permit.
(pounds-head-on-desk).