Police chief, gun club indicted in boy’s Uzi death

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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1136800&srvc=home&position=emailed

Firearms free-for-alls were dealt a major blow yesterday by the involuntary manslaughter indictment of a police chief and gun club for allowing an 8-year-old boy to fire a small Uzi and kill himself in what autorities are calling a tragedy loaded with errors.

It is illegal to give a machine gun to anyone under age 18, said Hampden District Attorney William M. Bennett.

“There is no exception that would allow a machine gun to be furnished to an 8-year-old, with or without parental consent,” he said.

He said he hopes the indictment sends a message.

Pelham Police Chief Edward B. Fleury, who organized the October gun shoot at the Westfield Sportman’s Club, was indicted yesterday along with the club and two others.

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1. boy was exercising his constitutional right. his parents must be proud. nt

[DonEBrook]

2. Proud? Of what, your right to be a sick snarky sonofabitch?

:grr:

[rrneck]

3. Yep. Safety and common sense go right out the window

if you wave a little money under some people's noses. Kids, grannies, crazy, stupid, deaf, and blind can come and shoot as long as somebody pays first.