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Student with wooden color guard rifle prompts lockdown, lockouts at Boulder schools
Fox31 Denver ^ | 16 Mar 18 | huck Hickey

Posted on 03/16/2018 10:10:52 AM PDT by real saxophonist

BOULDER, Colo. — A student with a wooden color guard rifle prompted Fairview High School to be placed on lockdown and four other schools placed on lockout on Friday morning, the Boulder Police Department said.

Police received a call about 7:30 a.m. saying they saw a teenage boy carrying what they believed was a white rifle case near Emerson Avenue in south Boulder. No gun was seen.

Mar 16, 2018

The Boulder Valley School District said just after 8 a.m. that Fairview was placed on the more restrictive lockdown, meaning all classrooms were secured, the lights were turned off and students were being kept quiet and in place indoors.

Southern Hills Middle School, Bear Creek Elementary School, Community Montessori School and Mesa Elementary were placed on lockout, the district said.

The restrictions were lifted about 8:30 a.m. after police found the student and it was determined he had been carrying a white wooden rifle that was brought to school for a color guard class.

The student usually carries the wooden rifle in a case. But the case he was carrying was full of flags so he decided to carry the rifle outside of the case, police said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; boulder; colorado; education
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To: real saxophonist; Sans-Culotte

This was in Washington DC public HS, up unil 1965 when I graduated.

At the start of the school year we were issued our rifles with sn numbers recorded.

We were taught to field strip them, but for the trigger group. During the week, using our free period or before/after classes, we were expected to clean them for weekly inspection. We were responsible for them after checking them out from the armory.

Only once was a rifle missing from the armory after pre-school drill. Before first period class, school was locked down. The Army Major advisor and our student commanding officers went straight to the students locker where they found it. Dofus had been dicking around late for class and rather than returning it to the armory. Next day in the stadium, the Major, using salty language for that era, introduced the offenders platoon to “high port” running drill, 3x around the track. Lesson learned by all.


41 posted on 03/16/2018 11:30:42 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Looks like Full Semi-Auto Hunting AR-15 Assault Wood.


42 posted on 03/16/2018 11:34:32 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Vaquero

keeper


43 posted on 03/16/2018 11:36:04 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Sans-Culotte

We used “deactivated” 1903s in the early 80s.


44 posted on 03/16/2018 11:37:34 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: shelterguy

It looks like the white version of that scary black AR 2 x 4....


45 posted on 03/16/2018 11:50:42 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: shelterguy
Is that a fully automatic 2x4?

An OAK-47?

46 posted on 03/16/2018 11:51:09 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Look, they already banned the song “tequilla” when my daughter was in color guard. Upset the band kids. Also they didn’t have rifles because the band director knew the kids would hurt themselves.


47 posted on 03/16/2018 11:56:53 AM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: real saxophonist

Collective hysteria.


48 posted on 03/16/2018 12:41:05 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims. - Henri Boulad)
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To: shelterguy

Don’t forget the white tape. I just read about using white duct tape to make knuckle dusters.


49 posted on 03/16/2018 1:30:22 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: American in Israel
Don’t forget government specific mutual assured destruction . . .

Insider Trading and Sex Trafficing of Interns / Hush Money for Sexual Assault Victims in Congress.

Gee- I wonder why no one ever goes to jail . . .

50 posted on 03/16/2018 1:44:22 PM PDT by atc23
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To: real saxophonist

Insanity this is. Circa 1966 I was in ROTC and this was required as my University was a land grant college. We did two years of ROTC and those that desired to continue would do four years and then be a commissioned officer in the Army.

During drills we would have several companies of students with fully functional M1 Garands drilling. The only thing to make the weapon totally functional would be a clip and the cartridges. These were readily available at many gun stores.

Nothing bad every happened! We all feared the wrath of Sergent Major Fox. This was a man that jumped into Normandy, fought in Korea and Vietnam. His few years at University were a present to him for his many years as a warrior. He was actually a very kind man and had stories of war that would amaze you. However, one did not cross Sergent Major Fox. Even the captains did not screw with him. He was killing Germans when they were wearing diapers.


51 posted on 03/16/2018 1:57:58 PM PDT by cpdiii
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To: cpdiii

Forgot to add, that the firing pins were not in the bolt. This could have been changed out with ease. It never happened.


52 posted on 03/16/2018 2:00:45 PM PDT by cpdiii
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To: shelterguy
Remember all them kids who got picked last for kickball? They became school superintendents.

They were the ones that I tried to pummel and wish I still could.

A good portion of this country has lost its collective mind. Most of us will still keep on funding and placing our children in these insane asylum/indoctrination centers of government "education".

53 posted on 03/16/2018 2:48:02 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Sans-Culotte
When I was in ROTC in high school back in the mid-70’s, we drilled with Remington Model 30 Springfield bolt-action rifles.

My college AFROTC Detachment had real, non-functioning, M-1 Garands. Probably outlawed now.

54 posted on 03/16/2018 4:11:39 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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