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Mom arrested after 6-year-old son allegedly brings semi-automatic handgun to school
ABC News ^ | February 15, 2023, 2:20 PM | Will McDuffie and Emily Shapiro

Posted on 02/17/2023 6:52:14 AM PST by deport

A Pennsylvania mother has turned herself in to police after her 6-year-old son allegedly took a semi-automatic handgun from her room and brought it to school, prosecutors said.

When kids got off the bus at Gotwals Elementary School on Feb. 9, they told a secretary that a "boy had been showing other students on the bus a real gun and bullets," the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said.

The secretary brought the 6-year-old to the office and found the gun in his backpack, and then called Norristown police, according to prosecutors.

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Times have changed for sure. But a six year old........
1 posted on 02/17/2023 6:52:14 AM PST by deport
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To: deport

Well at least it wasn’t a dreaded revolver. Have McCartney and Starr had all those albums pulled and renamed?


2 posted on 02/17/2023 6:53:25 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: deport

Well yeah. She should be.


3 posted on 02/17/2023 6:54:26 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: deport

If the 6 year old was “Trans”, the school would have celebrated his diversity and defended his right to have a gun because of “bigots”.


4 posted on 02/17/2023 6:56:18 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: deport

“”brought it to school””

TOOK IT TO SCHOOL....


5 posted on 02/17/2023 6:57:35 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: deport

Was it a semiautomatic assault weapon handgun that 30,000 bullets a minute?


6 posted on 02/17/2023 6:58:52 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: deport

What was she charged with?


7 posted on 02/17/2023 6:59:46 AM PST by Mercat
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To: rktman
....9 mm Jimenez Arms....

I’d take a Taurus revolver over this piece of crap.

8 posted on 02/17/2023 6:59:56 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Mercat

For felony endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment...


9 posted on 02/17/2023 7:01:16 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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That's racist!!!

Just kidding.

10 posted on 02/17/2023 7:01:21 AM PST by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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To: deport

dumb question - is there such a thing as a handgun that in not semi automatic?


11 posted on 02/17/2023 7:01:43 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Thank You Rush

transported, or brung? Urinalists today. Editors? LOL!


12 posted on 02/17/2023 7:02:20 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Jolla
dumb question - is there such a thing as a handgun that in not semi automatic?

I would think it would be a revolver.

13 posted on 02/17/2023 7:03:24 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: moovova
Well yeah. She should be.

Grandkids frequently come to visit me with their mom. I always make sure my guns are locked up before they arrive, and other than my holstered gun, which I keep in a Level 4 retention holster, they're in the safe, unloaded. Have yet to experience any problems.

14 posted on 02/17/2023 7:05:06 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: deport

Is it that hard to put the sucker on a dresser where a kid can’t reach it?

I mean, if you can’t afford a quickopen safe.


15 posted on 02/17/2023 7:05:37 AM PST by struggle
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To: COBOL2Java

These are not responsible firearm owners.

“Prosecutors said the handgun was bought last year in an illegal “straw purchase,” in which the actual buyer can’t pass the background check or doesn’t want to be associated with the transaction, and has another person step in to buy the weapon.

The man who bought the gun was arrested last year “and is awaiting trial on multiple felony charges relating to the illegal purchases and sales of four firearms, including the firearm in this incident,” prosecutors said.”


16 posted on 02/17/2023 7:07:06 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Jolla

Semi-automatic isn’t even a proper gun term, they are properly referred to as auto-loaders, but the media thinks the former sounds ‘cooler’ and more dangerous.


17 posted on 02/17/2023 7:08:59 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: COBOL2Java

You do it right, as do I. You’ve got to.


18 posted on 02/17/2023 7:10:57 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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These are not responsible firearm owners.

Very true. Unfortunately, the story will be rich fodder for the gun grabbers, who will conveniently leave out the details.

19 posted on 02/17/2023 7:12:30 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: struggle

There are several options for sori g handguns. The best is a biometric safe. I personally like the drop down shelf. If junior doesn’t know about it, it’s a convenient way to store weapons up out of little hands.


20 posted on 02/17/2023 7:29:49 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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