It was NOT a weapon. It was an unloaded firearm...thus its only use could be as a club. And not a particularly efficient one.
Do they have the same zero tolerance rules for baseball bats?
The purpose of the law has *nothing* to do with school safety and *everything* to do with the cultural genocide of the gun culture in the United States.
It is all about teaching young people that guns are *evil* and only *evil* people would be near them.
It is a disgrace that this law was not repealed when the Republicans had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency
You did know that the reason this happens is because there is a Federal law that withdraws federal funds from schools if the states do not enforce this, didn’t you?
The law has been a complete and utter disaster.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/disastrous-gun-law-sparked-school.html