Pro gun campaigner Jamie Gilt with her four-year-old son, who she’d this week said gets ‘jacked up’ to shoot with her .22 gun

A mother who was the poster girl for the pro-gun lobby has been accidentally shot in the back by her toddler son.

Jamie Gilt, 31, was taken to hospital after the four-year-old found her loaded pistol in the back seat of her truck as she drove through Putnam County, Florida.

The little boy then pointed the .45 semi-automatic handgun at his mother and pulled the trigger, firing a round through the car seat and into his mother’s back.


Gilt survived the blast and was able to flag down a sheriff’s deputy who took her to hospital.

The sheriff found the .45 gun on the floor of the car and said they were satisfied the gun had definitely been fired inside the vehicle.



Putman County Sheriff’s office spokesman Joseph Wells said: ‘As the deputy slowed to check on the vehicle, he observed an adult female in the driver’s seat motioning to him as if she needed assistance.

‘The deputy ran to the vehicle and quickly determined that the driver had been shot.

‘The deputy notified the dispatcher of the situation and Putnam County Fire / Rescue was dispatched.

‘The deputy provided first aid until the arrival of paramedics. The victim was transported to University of Florida Health in Gainesville and was last reported to be in stable condition.

A post written by Jamie Gilt two days ago that critics are now calling ironic – as she said her 4-year-old son gets ‘jacked up’ to shoot her .22 gun

‘The only other occupant of the vehicle was the victim’s four-year-old son, who was unharmed.’

Gilt may now face criminal charges for negligence in allowing the child to get his hands on the gun.

He was not strapped into his booster seat in the truck when the deputy arrived on the scene.

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