November 7, 2008 Uncut: Father and son talk about gun club accident Play video

(NECN) - A little over a week ago an 8-year-old Connecticut boy accidentally shot and killed himself during a machine gun event at a Massachusetts gun club. Investigators are looking into whether there is criminal negligence involved. The father of another boy who was there that day and fired the same machine gun says he is afraid of an over-reaction to a terrible accident.

Bill Spielman and his 11-year-old son Michael spoke with NECN's Brian Burnell about their experiences at the gun club.

The pair had been to the event before, where no incidents occurred, and said this year it was just as organized. Bill said "Everywhere you turned there was range officers, on top of range officers... It was very well organized."

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He says that his son shot the very same gun, a micro Uzi, that was involved in the accidental death of Christopher Bizilj. Bill says the gun is "only a 9mm shell, so it's not that much of kick, it's a pretty light shell it's the same that a police officer would have in his pistol. But the repetitiveness of it does tend to bring you up a little bit." Bill added that weapon had a stock on it at the time, and said it was probably the weapon with the least amount of kick on it as far as automatic weapons go.

The father said that he brought Michael to teach him

to respect the gun. "We take our kids out. We show them what these guns are. What they can do. This is not a video game. This is... When the bullet leaves that barrel you can't take it back. There are no do-over's. You can't reset it. It's permanent."

Michael described shooting the gun."The kick isn't a whole lot for me but for him it was probably a lot more because he's 3 years younger than me so its probably a lot different."

When Michael was asked if he would want to go back to the event, he said, "I'd love to go back but I'd want to take more precaution because my Mom was worried that when I came home I told her that and she was like, "well, that could have been you." and I realize if that was me then I wouldn't be here."