hey im new to makign games in flash, and have been trying to do this for hours but its bugging me really abd and looked everywhere.

basically im making a game and a man has a gun wich he can shoot with, i have 3 symbols all movieclips embedded in one another. like this

Man > Hand > Weapon

but i got the weapon to be animated when he shoots, ive tried everything and dont know how to animate just the weapon in the Hand in its currerntly location, i can do it via a fixed point using the code below;

attachMovie("deagle", "deagle", 4, {_x:50, _y:50});

that will play the animation everytime i click, but only in a fixed location, where i already have the hand moving on an axis, all i really need to know is how to run an animation thats embedded in multiple symbols.

thx alot andy