From: the novel savage (plarceny@semtex.iterror.org)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 13:03:06 PDT
So by the sound of it, the gun fell on her and killed her?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Jim Stead wrote:
> I was standing about 20 feet behind her when that hapenned. I remember
> the gun barrels raising up quickly until the whole triple gun was standing
> on end, firing into the sky. The 10' cloud of green and orange flame coupled
> with the BRRRRrrrrrr sound of that gun coming back towards us is something
> I'll probably never forget. It stopped firing before it fell over, I think
> it ran out of ammo. Whatever caused it to stop, thank God. There were
> hundreds of us behind the line watching......
> I don't recall any sandbags on the tripod legs, and staking the legs
> down is something you only think of in retrospect. Adults had fired that gun
> numerous times before and it stayed right where it belonged. The girl was
> about 10, her lack of body weight and muscle against the assembly probably
> had a lot to do with the loss of control.
>
> Jim
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> A triple mounted mini killed a young girl a few years ago at the
> Creek.....improperly mounted on a M3 tripod.
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