Gun rights activist shot in the back by her 4-yr-old son

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March 10, 2016 3:40 PM

The poster girl for 'gun sense' is currently in the hospital after she was shot in the back by her 4-year-old son.

Gun rights activist shot in the back by her 4-yr-old son

Jamie Gilt, 31, who posts about firearms on her social media accounts was driving through Putnam County, Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday in her truck when she was wounded after the toddler picked up the weapon and shot her in the back.

A Putnam County Sheriff's Office news release says a deputy saw Gilt behaving frantically inside the truck Tuesday afternoon and quickly realized she'd been shot.

Once she pulled her car over, she told deputies her 4-year-old son, who was sitting in the back of the truck, shot her in the back while she was driving.

According to Mashable, the bullet went through the seat and entered her back, before exiting her stomach. Her son wasn't harmed and was reunited with family members. He will remain with family while the Department of Children and Families investigates.

This incident came just a day after she said her son would get 'jacked up' before a shooting practice on a page dedicated to her musings on Second Amendment rights.

On the profile Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense she wrote: 'Even my 4 year old gets jacked up to target shoot with the .22'.

She reportedly believes she has the right to shoot anyone who threatens her family - and plans to teach her offspring the same mentality.

Many of her photos show her holding rifles. The image above shows Gilt holding her son on her lap with a rifle in the other hand.

Gilt runs a Facebook page called Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense whose goal "is to protect and expand our 2nd Ammendment [sic] rights."

Gilt was taken to a Gainesville hospital, where she was in stable condition but police have not yet been able to interview her.

It is a misdemeanor in Florida to leave a loaded firearm where a child might access it.

Investigators are still trying to determine how the boy got the gun, he added.

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