Lucky that the stupidity of her supervisor didn't lead to her own death.

Recoil and grip are serious issues. Nobody, regardless of age, should be given a gun whose kick is too great for them to handle. And allowing fully-automatic for an inexperienced shooter contradicts everything even the most fervent gun-rights activist should believe about responsible gun instruction for children.

The last time an Uzi and a similarly aged child made the news was the 8yr old boy who accidentally killed himself because his father insisted he was ready.

Even some gun-rights bloggers question giving a preteen a chance to fire anything in fully-automatic mode.

"If you’ve never fired a true fully automatic weapon (no bump firing, sliding stocks, and light triggers don’t count) then you can’t really appreciate how quickly things happen. The entire magazine is literally full one moment and empty the next. Inexperienced shooters tend to clamp down on the trigger. That fact, combined with the recoil profile a full auto, could possibly create disastrous results in the right situation.

Do you think young children should be able to shoot fully automatic firearms, even under controlled circumstances?"

For those who don't know; semi-automatic means one round per trigger depression. The bullets are fed automatically for as many times as the trigger is pressed until the magazine is empty. But a "deathgrip" on the trigger would create a cessation of firing.

Fully automatic means that both feeding ammo AND firing continue for as long as the depression is sustained. Here a "deathgrip" means firing everything as quickly as automation allows until the ammo runs out.

She is very lucky to be alive with an out-of-control gun in her grip.

With more sense on the part of the gun-range instructor, he could be alive too.

Dante