I am confident her personal safety is fine. It is just that it is so much easier to keep the hand gun in hand and easier for an inexperienced shooter to forget it is an extension of their hand. She has been excellent with the savage rifle. i remember a post by some one saying to basically "hover" behind the new shooter ready to secure the shoulders to reaffirm the muzzle always points down range. I like the laser idea and can always tape one to her hand so she sees with no gun how easy it is to "sweep" non-targets and more important how to always keep it from infringing on the safety of others. She is a quite responsible 16 year old but the habitual safety measures are lacking since she has only been shooting the rifle since October. she was an AVID RABID gun hater until I pretty much forced her to "give it a whirl" and now she does her part to make sure my son's Boa gets fed...
After her first "kill" I told her that she was forever EXPELLED from peta and other such groups...
Brent