Woman Finds Loaded Gun In Newly Purchased Laptop Case(IN barf alert)

tristatehomepage.com ^ | 5 May, 2012 | Ryan Braschler

[marktwain]

An Evansville woman makes a shocking discovery after a yard sale purchase. She says all she wanted was a laptop case, but when she opened it she found a loaded handgun inside.

A lot of people find a lot of great deals at yard sales, but when Rhonda Milligan went to the Evansville Christian Life Center sale she got more than she bargained for.

Rhonda Milligan made several stops in her yard sale spree, one of those was here at the Evansville Christian Life Center on Kentucky Avenue. She bought a leather laptop case, but when she got home and opened the bag she was shocked to find a fully loaded revolver.

She says she believes the Christian Life Center was careless and did not check the bag before putting it up for sale. Milligan called police to meet her back at the Center, but by that time the facility was already closed.

She says she hopes sellers will be more careful, and that bargain hunters will take a second look before they buy.

Evansville police declined to comment on the incident on the scene. We also reached out to the Evansville Christian Life Center for comment, but those messages weren't returned.

[Libertarian4Bush]

ding ding ding! just more of those new “rights” I keep hearing about. my failing eyesight can’t seem to find them in my pocket constitution - I’ve been asking my liberal friends to point them out but they’re just so busy, y’know?

[XXXoholic]

Having lived in IL, I’m sure this woman did not have a FOID card which is required to own or purchase a firearm or ammo. She would be a felon if she did not report what she found to the police. She’s lucky the police didn’t arrest her. Glad I left that hell hole of a state and moved to the great lone star state.

[Libertarian4Bush]

you know, in this day and age, when we handcuff 4-year-olds as an alternative to empowering adults to treat children like children, that type of government response wouldn't shock me. it would outrage me, but wouldn't shock me.

what's really sad is that it would elicit nothing more than a shrug from even most freepers and a disinterested glance from the general populace, the latter of whom avoid responsibility by dismissing all incidents of gov't harassment as isolated incidents, providing it's happening to someone else.