Chilling: Watch Alleged 2-Year-Old Egyptian Toddler Shoot Real Handgun While Relatives Praise Him
- Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:09pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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In the past The Blaze has reported on stories about children in Islamic countries being taught to use firearms and take part in armed conflict, but somehow seeing it in action makes this very disturbing topic all the more real, and chilling.
And while the act of any child using a gun might be considered reprehensible, we have never reported on it occurring with one so young before. That is until today, however.
MEMRI translates a disturbing televised report about weapons trafficking in Egypt. What draws the eye, however, is not the quantity or variety of guns circulating Egyptian streets, but of who is actually doing the shooting — allegedly a two and half-year-old toddler named Hamada.
Watch as one of the traffickers, who allegedly uses Google and Facebook to purchase the weapons, allows Hamada (presumably his relative) to “point upwards” and “shoot!”
It is an on-the-edge of your seat moment as you watch innocent, tiny Hamada fiddle with the handgun, fire, then cringe as it kickbacks in his face. What’s worse, after this incident, the gun trafficker hands over the gun to the child for a second go-round.
There is even a moment where the child, adjusting his grip on the trigger, looks as though he might accidentally turn the barrel of the gun towards his own face.
After Hamada fires the gun for the second time, the man praises the tot on a job “well done!”
While the child in the video appears a bit older than two and half-years, MEMRI and CBC TV assert the child’s age is that young. And although training a more mature child to use firearms correctly can be considered a good thing, perhaps Hamada’s age and particular surroundings place the child in a precarious situation. Dwelling among Egyptian gun traffickers and shooting firearms before you’ve even had the opportunity to fully develop cognitive skills is probably not a safe bet overall.
























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5thregNHSM
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:28pmThat kid’s stance is horrible.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:22pm.
Report Post »I was kinda of hoping he would get a finger caught in the slide…….
theplumber
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:26pmHAHAHA…yeah he needs to practice the Weaver.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:45ampoint the hole at his face
Report Post »arkiv_x
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:47amStill not bad for a 2 year old.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:58amHe’s got a good future ahead of him.
Report Post »Quad-rip-legic
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:28amI call BS on the kid shooting. Look at the barrel and estimate the caliber. Then watch the video for any recoil.
Report Post »Libertarian Infidel
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 2:36amThat gun appears to be like a 9mm or .40s&w and the recoil looks that of not even a .22, so I’m calling B.S. on this.
Report Post »Libertarian Infidel
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 2:39amCongratulations to the person who knows Adobe AfterFX or Premier. That’s a basic effect where all you need is a picture of a muzzle flash, picture of smoke and gun soundFX…I can do the same effect in literally a 30 second google image search and less than 2 minutes time in after effects.
Report Post »dogday
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 2:51amNow that’s funny!
Report Post »chazman
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 5:54am… Islam sucks … don’tcha agree, ROSE-ELLEN?
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 6:05amIf you think today’s radical muslims are nasty just wait for the next generation. Like they say in Hollywood – You ain’t seen nothin yet.
Report Post »BlackAce41
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 6:41amThat child needs to learn what goes up must come down later.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:15amYeah it is. I am all about guns, but when it comes to intellect this act was barely just a notch above the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:09amThis ended up tragically though….the story follow up is the bullet ricocheted off a near by lamp post and hit the father between the eyes. The young child and his mother were immediatly stoned to death….tragic really tragic.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:10amjeez, how old does a muslim have to be to be dangerous???? the kid can’t talk much and already they are preparing him to kill non belivers.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:25amThe don’t teach aiming until 21.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:53amand the kid said, what? i can’t hear you.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:57am.
Report Post »Maybe we‘ll be lucky and he’ll shoot his whole family.
Bum thrower
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:25amWhere is the Egyptian branch of the “center to prevent gun violance? Or any of the other US based anti-gun groups? They need to ‘branch out’; Gun control is not just for America you know! We need to share!
Report Post »apbt55
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:33amYeah, don’t know what the big deal is, my 5 year old daughter knows how to break down, clean and shoot my M16, and has a crickett and .22 hand gun of her own. She has used the crickett to kill a ground hog in our garden.
It is better to teach them the reality of guns then hide it from them and they do something horrible one day.
Report Post »SAJ
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:51amNot even a .22. Probably a C02 gun. There definitely was not enough recoil for this to have been a full-powered round.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:45amHe’s not 2 years old. He’s at least 4. Parents would recognize this immediately.
That said, big deal. I had a pistol in my son’s hand when he was around 3 to 4.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:21amTrain up a boy according to the way for him; even when he grows old he will not turn aside from it. – Proverbs 22:6
Report Post »N5DVC
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:45pmI have to call BS on this entire video. What idiot would explain his entire illegal supply chain for a TV story?
Report Post »Plus, that was a pretty soft shooting gun there… Just saying… if it were not a bb gun, the kid would have had a bump on the noggin. No upward recoil AT ALL
scarebear83
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 4:06pm@Banjarmon That is a disgusting thing to say. This is a child that doesn’t know any better than what he is being taught. I can only hope and pray that when he gets older he will not follow in the footsteps of Islam but that he will be taught the Truth and follow it.
Report Post »USMarine0311
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:14pmSee they know to teach the kids about guns rather than hide them from them so they can stumble upon them and accidently shoot someone.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:46pmSpot on USMARINE0311. As a small child I was taught to respect guns and as an adult I still respect them. BUT, I know how to use them and NEVER abuse them. Thank You for your service Marine.
Report Post »TruthSpeaker
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:41pmsame here.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:31amAmen brother. I was taught at a VERY young age how to safely handle firearms. I just hate that these folks are training their children for war, instead of “teaching” them about gun safety. I second AMERICANSTREGA: Thanks for your service :)
Report Post »TexasStu
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:58amI started shooting at the age of 5 been shooting ever since. You are never too young to learn about guns how to respect them and to learn what kind of damage they cause. My kids grew up with a loaded gun always within reach and yet never a shot that was not on target or fired by mistake. Teach your children well with God firmly in their minds and they will grow up just fine with guns around them.
Report Post »Doug in Seattle
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:10pmAs the guy said – he is teaching them to use it. Education is a GOOD thing, especially when you are teaching something practical like protecting yourself against thieves and dictators.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:06amthey are teaching him to kill Jews.
Report Post »chancetexas
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:05amAge two? Well, better late than never. The recoil looks a bit fishy for a gun that size. It was more than likely a very cheap round or a blank.
Report Post »TeachESL
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 3:59pmteaching young children???? This is child abuse!
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:07pmEgyptians should have the right to keep and bear arms too. A well-armed arab public can keep these ruthless dictators at bay for us and save us gobs in foreign aid. I saw nothing wrong in that video, except I didn‘t see anyone close enough to the kid to make sure he didn’t inadvertently point it at someone. Gun safety is still important, even in the middle east.
Report Post »ValiantDefender
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 2:38amI’m thinking he was shooting blanks….or that was a .22 pistol. almost no recoil, or so it seemed.
Report Post »drago
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:06pmOk blaze, i normally dont comment on stories like this, but this is pure b/s.The first clue to the editor should have been the claim, that the guns came from America and Isreal.Second, for a child that young to hold that pistol while shooting it, would be impossible, to me, it looks to be at least a 9mm,which should have left his hands like a rocket due to recoil.The only possible calibre a child that young could fire without significant recoil, would be a .22.Its obvious no one dealved into this “non-stroy ” far enough, otherwise it would’nt have been posted…..
Report Post »TruthSpeaker
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:42pmduh
Report Post »gvblaze
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:07amThere really is a problem. There should have been way more recoil than they showed. When I was three, I shot 9mms but if you held it like that kid, you’d have been smacked square in the noggin.
But, its good that they’re at least involving the kids. These people don’t impress me as a bunch of terrorists, just common people trying to practice good self defense.
I support them! Go Egyptians! Maybe if you teach your kids to keep and bear arms they won’t turn out to be a bunch of whipped, whining wimps like ours are in America. Between the pussification “see something, say something“ and the ”if you see a gun, don’t touch it! Go tell an adult.”
Heck, when I was 5 years old, if I saw a gun laying around, the first thing I’d do is grab it, point it in a safe direction, check to see if it was loaded, if it was, I’d unload it. America has become land of the tax slave, home of the idiots.
How hard is it to learn the language of Egypt? I envy them just a little.
Report Post »Alucard
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:08amYeah you can see that the hammer is still cocked after it fires. I agree it looks like a way to smear the US and Israel as gun runners, but we all know that we only run guns across the Mexican border.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:16amit is why the use of the gun is being taught that is the problem not that he is learing how to use a gun. jeez.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:04pmLook at that, the little tyke is learning to contibute to the economy!
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:52pmHad a red rider at 8, had a marlin .22 at 10, had a mossberg 500 at 12. Do‘nt ever point a gun at something you do’nt want to die.
Report Post »5thregNHSM
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:24pm@GODHATESACOWARD
Report Post ».22 at 9, 20 ga. at 11, .30-06 at 13.
First thing my old man told me was,
“Never aim your firearm at anything
you don’t want to put a hole in.”.
The-Monk
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:02amPart 1;
Report Post »Same thing except; even if you WANT to put a hole in it (somebody or some animal), are you ready for the consequences of your actions? Is it self defense or just anger? Or are you looking for food?
When I was about 15 years old I was walking down a dirt and gravel road (in what was known as the Ft. Belvoir Military Training Area) back in the early 70′s. 10K square miles of wilderness where the Army trained troops for the Vietnam War. I was at an intersection when a dirt bike came by and stopped in front of me. He looked back at me and then sprayed me with gravel from his rear tire as he rode off down a straight stretch of road. I was carrying a S&W .357 model 19 Combat Magnum with competition grips w/hollow points (loaded hot) and a loaded 30.06 rifle. I pulled the .357, aimed it at his back, raised it up a little for his distance and speed, calculated the shot, and then remembered my training. I’m OK. Not injured. Do I really want to end this person’s life over his idiotic behavior? Nope. He drove away never knowing how close he came to death. My finger was on the trigger but, my Mind was on my training. I knew the difference between right and wrong. For a few seconds I held this person’s life in my right index finger. I’m not a coward but, I am trained when not to kill.
Part 2 next… 1500 word limit.
The-Monk
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:04amPart 2….
Report Post »This is what’s happening in Washington nowadays. They are spraying us with gravel for no sound reason at all and begging us to shoot them with the blanks they have provided us. They will cry; racist, bigot, Tea Party slave owners, reparations are needed for the poor, social justice, social mobility for illegal immigrants, the right to work for illegal immigrants, the right for SSID and health care for illegal immigrates, the right for illegal immigrants to go to school on our dime, the right for the ATF to deliver guns to our enemies to kill us and call it an investigation that will go nowhere.
I am trained not to kill unless needed… but, I “now know” how to vote. And I will never vote for a Democrat again. This is my bullet. This is my kill shot. My vote is loaded “hot” and it won’t miss.
DYNA
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:51pmThey can afford bullets and guns, they do not need foreign aid.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:11pmThey can’t afford guns.They traded one one of those useful-idiot journalist women they kidnapped during a rally. She trusted them and came back to their village for an exclusive interview. They traded her and her equipment for some guns, ammo, a video camera and a camel. She is now a “concubine” somewhere in the Gaza strip. Can you see how excited they are with their rusty 70′s era pistols?
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:51pmAFFIRMATIVE BLACTION……and praise be to you Aachmed, and bustin your sister @ age 2, did u just get out.
Report Post »Indymaverick
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:49pmAwwwwww they blow up so fast.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:55pmThat’s fn funny!
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:24pmClassic-ABSOLUTELY Classic comment.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:40pmHow the guns are available seems most important.
>Children should know how (and when) to use guns when they are as readily available as shoes are in the US.
p.s. That is NOT a two year old child.
Report Post »dscon
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:57pmthat is not a 2 year old i agree……….
that gun also is not a large caliber pistol!
(from the small kick-back on that
child)
my 2 cents
Report Post »Mauser KAR98K
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:08pmIt s a Sig P226 ( I believe) in 9mm.
Report Post »BJC
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:48pmI was thinking the same thing while looking at the child. He is NOT two. I would guess he’s 4 going on 5. Not that it’s a big difference. I wouldn’t want to be around a 4 year old with a gun. Nothing against guns, I’m all NRA and gun rights.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:01amYep… I thought the same thing. He’s 4-5ish. I have a 6 year old and he’s not much older than that boy. A 2 year old is a lot smaller than that and way less of an attention span that that boy has.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:35amIf that boy is 2 years old, I’ll kiss your @ss ;)
Report Post »cabnetdude
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:39pmSo…..Now the Dark Lord will claim that we as Americans need to be more regulated so this won’t happen here…right? FMCDF.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:39pmGo ahead, hamada, put the barrel in your mouth….
Report Post »cabnetdude
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:41pmTo funny.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:34pmI hate to say it but the day is coming when we will be teaching our young children in haste on how to handle and shoot a firearm if we havent done so already.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:58pmNOTHING wrong with teaching our young children how and when to shoot a gun
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:02pmA word of advice. Never let a kid shoot your best rifle- after that its all”butI doanwanna!”
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:07pm@Captain Crunch
Report Post »I started learning to shoot a rifle at 9 years old. Not just shooting it but, cleaning it and all the rules involved. Never point it at someone in fun, how to carry it, how to walk with it, how to take care of it, how to store the ammo. I got my own rifle on my 13th B-Day. It belonged to my Grandmother and was passed down to me. Having a gun was natural in Northern VA and every house had one. We had no crime because everyone knew that everyone else was armed. It’s called respect… not fear.
The problem now is that the Government has tried several times to enforce a law saying that if you have any mental disorder you can not own a gun. Sounds OK, right? But, the Government is making allot of children take meds like Ritalin or Prozac in grade school. This will be classified as having a mental disorder. When they start checking for mental disorders and all medical records are available any child that took either of these 2 drugs (or any other) in grade school will be declined. Thus; disarming the American public in the long-run. And that’s how the progressives work; slow and over time. Like Cass, it’s just another nudge!
The-Monk
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:34pmRule #1; never shoot a gun into the air near a populated area. What goes up, must come down.These people have no clue about cause and effect. Maybe they believe Moe Hamad will pluck the bullets out of the sky before they land in their neighboor’s body.
Report Post »sabat56
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:30pmStarting at his age he should be damn good shot at 9
Report Post »Steve
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:39pmHe’ll be able to shoot a Christian at 40 feet in the head. Proud parents.
Report Post »eshaw380
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:28pmKind of funny how the first countries he named are America, and Israel…gee really, thats how I know this is fake, and set up. It‘s just Obama’s hometown family members doing a quick anti-gun movie for all to see. I find it funny that he mentions the other countries, which would have way easier ways to smuggle guns across a border. But yet it’s AMERICA that these guns are coming from…where is our border with Egypt??? Is that in the norhteast???
Report Post »Sagus
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:52amI had the same thought. I did see a few Eastern bloc weapons
Report Post »bane73
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:26pmTiffany (the reporter) is either an anti-gunner, uneducated, or just a pansie.
Kids absolutely *SHOULD* be trained about guns. That‘s how you instill proper protocol in them before they are old enough to do something wrong when you aren’t watching.
Not only that but the strongest societies are always the ones that raise their children with a high-degree of responsibility and expectation.
These guys may (or may not) be preparing their kids to do ill; who knows.
But one things for certain: THEY WILL BE READY.
Where will America be when our back is against the wall and we are left depending on the younger generation to defend us??? Based on many I see in society, I’m fairly worried at that prospect.
What happened to our society where 13-year-olds were expected to behave like men???
Report Post »We’ve sissified them.
All in the name of “culture”.
Sad.
loriann12
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:45pmI was against it until I read where he said he’d rather teach him at this age than have him pick up a gun and kill his brother (because he didn’t know how to do it right). I agree with the previous poster that said this may be coming to us. My 12 year old is learning through the boy scouts how to fire rifles, but not hand guns. My dad taught me at a real young age, not to shoot, but the safety part. Never have a gun unless you’re prepared to use it. Never pull a gun unless you intend to fire it. Never fire it unless you intend to shoot to kill. My grandpa had a .22 pearl handle gun that he said didn’t have a firing pin. I pointed it out the window to site, and nearly got tackled by my dad. He said you NEVER assume a gun is unable to fire or unloaded.
Report Post »shakenbake
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:52pmThis is the way I am raising my boys. They will know how to handle firearms and hold responsibility at a young age. My family will be full of shepherds, not sheep.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:21amI taught both my boys at a young age to safely use and respect a firearm. Now they are adults and responsible crack shots. Those that teach their young that firearms are things to fear are raising nothing but crackpots.
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:25pmDoesn’t really seem to mesh with the earlier story about the Muslims and anti-violence poll. Sounded like bunk to me, anyway.
Report Post »JRntEwing
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:24pmI had to scroll back up to check. Yup, article written by a big city chick. Give us a break, my kids were both chasing brass for me as soon as they could walk. Shooting as soon as they could hold it up and pull the trigger with both hands. In this country I wouldn‘t agree with shooting up in the air with anything but a shotgun that’s what they do over there. While I would exercise a little more caution on where the boy points the weapon the guy is correct in teaching the boy before he hurts someone accidentally.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:45pmLike that wouldn’t be a blessing!!
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:18amwow good idea, i think i’ll take my grandsons with me so they can collect the brass. they already make guns with their leggos. maybe i can staple their hearing protection on their little heads.
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:24pmI have 4 grandbabies…this child is NOT 2 years old…I can promise you this. He is closer to 4 or 5. Still ridiculous, but I tell you that he is NOT 2 years old.
Report Post »bane73
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:29pmI agree; my boy is 20 months old. This kid looks MUCH older. Just in the way he sits more erect and is more aware what he doing with his arms shows that he is significantly older. My sister’s kid is a little over 3 and reminds me much more of the boy in the video.
The boy isn’t 2.
Report Post »Might be 3-1/2.
Probably closer to 4-5.
dmforman
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:25pmI have a 3 year old. No way that boy is 2. He has to be 4 or 5.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:23ami think he’s a midget. um i mean little person, my bad.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:22pmThis is just not right.
Report Post »Unstable Phenomenon
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:20pmWhy does this not surprise me?
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:17pmA peaceful religion, I like guns, but 2 years olds should not be using them !
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:25pmThat child is NOT 2 years old…just isn’t …I’m 61 years old, and have seen and raised a number of children..this child is NOT 2 years old. Probably more like 4….and trying to please.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:27pmI agree.
Report Post »Affirmative Blaction
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:27pmyea two year old should not own guns, but for crying out loud even a terrorist gun trafficer knew to teach the young child how to handle the gun so he didnt end shooting himself or is brother.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:16pmNice grouping partner!
Report Post »Affirmative Blaction
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:15pmBig whoop, I was bustin off a glock at 1 yeras old.
Report Post »gvblaze
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:19amI was potty trained with a snub nosed 38 S&W. A chrome one. Mom still has it 46 years later.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:26am@ gvblaze: potty trained with a smith 38? now you had a tough MOM.
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