Fully Automatic Uzi Machine Gun

Never leave guns where your children might reach them! Judging from what happened yesterday, this should become one of the ten commandments of parenthood.

The Westfield Sportsman’s Club, on Furrowtown Road, witnessed the tragic death of an 8 year old boy. He accidentally shot himself in the head. The odds of him making it alive were extremely scarce, so he died at the Baystate Medical Center, in Springfield.

The Westfield police are still investigating on the circumstances of the boy’s death and whether the fully automatic Uzi machine gun was working properly.

The gun club was hosting the annual “Great New England Pumpkin Shoot”, organized by C.O.P. Firearms & Training. The boy, who was competing, apparently lost control over the machine gun when he was firing downwards and the weapon went up and caused a wound to the right side of his head.

The boy’s father was also attending the event, but he did not make any statement. The press couldn’t get any declaration from the club and the weapon group officials either, as they were nowhere to be found.