quite possibly the worst story of the month

[rone]

When they use the phrase "adult supervision", i don't think it means what they think it means.  What the fuck were these people thinking?

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[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, the lighter the thing is the more it will recoil with a given round; that's just elementary basic Newtonian physics. Add that to something that wants to come back around on the pitch axis with each round and you've got very bad news if you can't control it. And I'd heard of a similar accident with a grownup failing to handle a .50 handgun years ago, so it's not like a new concept that people had an excuse to be unaware of. The advice that time, and probably good advice still, is that when you fire an unfamiliar semiauto for the first time, load one round only and find out about the recoil before trying two, and only then try a full magazine. But everyone's got to be macho and go straight for the full rock'n'roll joy and not be cautious.