He's a year older than my uncle was when he enlisted.Yes, true. An easy feat, with a rifle, and nobody shoots back. That doesn't earn him his gun discipline boy scout badge.
he clearly was not skilled at handling the weapon. Which, what do you expect, from a 17-year handling the illegal weapon for the first time? But even the basics, like how he carried it, were pretty amateurish. But again, he was a child.