Similar attractions have been around since the 1980s in Las Vegas, although the city has experienced a boom of such businesses in the past few years. The only thing they can do is hate everybody.” 
 
 Scarmardo told The Associated Press that his policy of allowing children 8 and older to fire guns under adult supervision and the watchful eye of an instructor is standard practice for the industry. “We are working with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, and we’ll make a decision if we’ll make any changes after we review all the facts.” 
 
 Mr. Scarmardo said that the girl’s parents “were very familiar with weapons” and that Mr. Vacca and a tour guide had driven the family to the shooting range from their hotel in Las Vegas. Tourists from Japan flock to ranges... (Associated Press) 
 
 A man closes off an entrance to the Last Stop outdoor shooting range Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, in White Hills, Ariz. Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
 
 Some ranges in the area do prohibit young children from handling such heavy weapons, but Last Stop allows children as young as 8 to participate. “We allow children to shoot, but not a fully automatic Uzi,” said Genghis Cohen, owner of an indoor shooting range, Machine Guns Vegas. The parents were videotaping when the shooting occurred. Gun range instructor Charles Vacca was accidentally killed Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 at the range... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this Aug. 25, 2014 image made from video provided by the Mohave County Sheriff Department, firing-range instructor Charles Vacca, left, shows a 9-year old girl how to use an Uzi. Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
 
 Mr. Cohen said it was “pretty much the same situation” as in 2008 at a gun show in Westfield, Mass., when an 8-year-old Connecticut boy, Christopher K. Bizilj, accidentally shot and killed himself. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said Vacca was supervising when the girl first fired a 9 mm Uzi in “single shot” mode at the range Monday about 10 a.m. Sheriff Jim McCabe said the weapon was switched to the “fully automatic” mode and the girl accidentally shot Vacca in the head as the gun recoiled and drifted left toward the instructor as it fired an undetermined amount of times. Vacca died at University Medical Center in Las Vegas about 11 hours after the shooting. “In the last 14 years, we’ve probably had 100,000 people shoot five million rounds of ammunition, and of those, a thousand to two thousand of them were children,” he said. “This is a personal opinion,” said Mr. Cox, based in Mesa, Ariz. “I don’t think a 9-year-old should be shooting them.” 
 
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 This year, at least 45 children have been killed in accidental shootings after they found loaded guns at home, according to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
– The Last Stop outdoor shooting range at Bullets and Burgers in Arizona is open for business again, days after a deadly accident that made headlines around the world. A 9-year-old girl firing an Uzi accidentally killed an instructor at the range Monday, but the owner says that was the first accident in the range's 14-year history. In that time, "we've probably had 100,000 people shoot 5 million rounds of ammunition, and of those, 1,000 to 2,000 of them were children," he tells the New York Times. "We've never given out a Band-Aid; no one's never even got a scratch." He describes instructor Charles Vacca, who was fatally shot when the girl lost control of the weapon, as a highly trained veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who was still in the Army Reserve. The owner tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal he is aware the case has sparked fierce debate on gun issues, but he describes detractors as "the ones that are sitting downstairs in their mom's basement with their fuzzy slippers and bathrobe and dirty underwear ... because they just hate everything so much." Even some fellow gun-range owners are critical, however, saying they would never have allowed a petite 9-year-old girl to handle a weapon that powerful. The girl was from New Jersey, but Genghis Cohen, owner of a Las Vegas shooting range, tells the AP that many customers who want to fire automatic weapons are tourists from overseas. "They see guns as a big part of American culture, and they want to experience American culture," says Cohen, who is installing a tethering system to stop machine guns from rising up as they fire, like the Uzi did in the accident that killed Vacca.