[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Poor kid. How do we have so many ****ing idiots in this world/ I don't care if it was apparently an 'accident'...it takes a special kind of dickhead to be messing with something like that where kids are to begin with.

I agree Vicky - the rifle has to be AIMED at the baby AND the trigger pulled. In my experience Air-Rifles are NOT known for having 'Hair Triggers', and the very soft lead of a pellet is NOT kown for ricocheting.

Truth will out I suppose, but I am cynical.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

I agree Vicky - the rifle has to be AIMED at the baby AND the trigger pulled. In my experience Air-Rifles are NOT known for having 'Hair Triggers', and the very soft lead of a pellet is NOT kown for ricocheting.

Truth will out I suppose, but I am cynical.

Just for the sake of clarity, Kirk... Ricochets aren't infrequent occurrences with airguns and if the pellet was made of steel, not only are they more likely to ricochet, they can bounce back with their whole initial velocity. And any rifle or pistol can have a hair trigger. Having said all that, kids shouldn't ever be fecking around with airguns. They're ridiculously dangerous.

Poor little kid.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Livia

Just for the sake of clarity, Kirk... Ricochets aren't infrequent occurrences with airguns and if the pellet was made of steel, not only are they more likely to ricochet, they can bounce back with their whole initial velocity. And any rifle or pistol can have a hair trigger. Having said all that, kids shouldn't ever be fecking around with airguns. They're ridiculously dangerous.

Poor little kid.

No problem Liv . I had a lot of air rifles as I was growing up, but it was a long time ago and I was speaking from my own experience. I did not even know that there were steel pellets for these things now, and I defer to your superior knowledge.

Regarding a loaded air rifle being in the same room as a child, and an adult actually picking it up while the child was there, I will stay cynical though I'm afraid, because it beggars belief.

[Ammi]

A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm after a one-year-old baby was shot in the head with an air pistol in Bristol.

Jordan Walters appeared at Bristol Magistrates Court on Monday.

The child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is in a critical condition with head injuries at Bristol Children's Hospital.

Police were called to a flat in Bishport Avenue in the Hartcliffe area of Bristol shortly after 4pm on Friday when neighbours reported hearing a child "screaming and screaming".

Walters and his partner Emma Jane Horseman, 23, were both charged over the incident.

Horseman has not yet entered a plea to a charge of aiding or abetting Walters to commit the offence.

Prosecutor Lucy Coleman told the court: "The Crown's case is that Mr Walters is the owner of an air pistol. Miss Horseman is his partner."

She said the child was visiting Walters and Horseman with his mother when the air gun was fired.

"Unfortunately the gun was loaded," Miss Coleman said.

The prosecutor said Walters made a 999 shortly afterwards.

"During the call Mr Walters said he thought the gun was empty and he had accidentally shot the one-year-old child," she added.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews...cid=spartandhp