Unless they meant 25-caliber instead of .25, in which case it looks something like this:
Posted on 04/18/2005 6:20:20 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
ST. PAUL - Christina Hintze saw something shimmer in the distance when she was picking up trash in St. Paul's Battle Creek Park Saturday.
"I thought it was just garbage on the ground because it was just shiny," Hintze said.
A gun is the last thing Hintze and her friend expected to find in their neighborhood park. But, hidden in the leaves Hintze discovered a 25-caliber handgun.
"It was silver and it was very clean too, so it wasn't sitting there long," Hintze said. She used what she had learned in gun-safety training to handle the gun properly and carefully in a glove.
The girls say they aren't allowed in the park without a parent, they say now they know why.
"I'm kind of hoping that someone just lost it and it wasn't used for hurting people," Hintze said.
St. Paul police say the 25-caliber handgun has been sent to the crime lab for processing. They won't know more about it or whether it was loaded until after it is processed.
Must be because nobody died, it had a happy ending and a child, a girl, knew exactly what to do in this situation because she had (GASP!!!) taken a gun safety course.
Crimeny. I'd have unloaded it in the first 5 seconds after handling it.
Very cheap but reliable gun made mostly from pot metal but steel where it is needed.
Yet another senseless tragedy averted b/c of Gun Safety classes.
Liberals insist that Sex Ed reduces pregnancy and STDs, but ask them to apply the same logic to teaching children how to handle firearms safely and they stick their fingers in their ears.
I think that after they run this piece, they're going to close a case or two.
I hate stories like this, I never find guns. I always end up having to buy mine.
Yeah, so much for the "keep kids away from gun education at all costs" argument.
Could be, but my money is on them not turning up anything.
At least they didn't refer to it as an assult weapon.
When used correctly, a gun does not need to be fired. Therefore guns are not for hurting people.
Well, now that I know where they're dumping 'em.........
Finders keepers.
She's young, but on the right path. She'll learn the entire truth.
Unless they meant 25-caliber instead of .25, in which case it looks something like this:
Well at least they didn't find it in the street. That is where they are always going to get them off of.
Am I blind or does the story not give her age? Are we talking about a young child, a tween, or an older child here? I think it would be relevant considering the fact she handled the weapon safely as a result of her firearms training.
"That is where they are always going to get them off of."
snork!
The fact that it was shiny is the give-away. I guess there were some chromed baby Brownings and Berettas, but I don't recall ever seeing one which wasn't blue.
No age given. Watching the video, she looks to be 13-14.
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