https://abcnews.go.com/US/dad-arrested- ... d=96484306When officers knocked on the family's apartment door, the child answered, police said. Osborne reportedly told police he was ill and had not realized his son had left the apartment, according to the police report. He "advised there was not a firearm in the home, nor did [his son] have any toy guns," and later added that he had no guns due to a past felony conviction, according to the report.
--snrp--
The officers returned to the apartment to conduct another search, during which Osborne reportedly told police that he does not have a firearm, but that a relative may have left one in the apartment, according to the police report. When an officer asked the child where he put his "pew pew," the boy led them to a roll-top desk that contained the handgun, according to the report.
Osborne "did not know the weapon was in the apartment at this time, nor that [his son] knew where it was," according to the report.
The officers returned to the apartment to conduct another search, during which Osborne reportedly told police that he does not have a firearm, but that a relative may have left one in the apartment, according to the police report. When an officer asked the child where he put his "pew pew," the boy led them to a roll-top desk that contained the handgun, according to the report.
Osborne "did not know the weapon was in the apartment at this time, nor that [his son] knew where it was," according to the report.
The gun apparently had a full magazine but no round was chambered. Osborne was prohibited from gun ownership. No word in the article about the other irresponsible adult, the "relative."
Video at the link.
Stuff like this fuels the righteous anger of the anti 2A crowd, which could result in laws stronger than necessary. I believe it is up to clubs like ours to steer laws and policies in the proper direction, towards safe storage rather than to gun bans--that's where it will go if anti 2A folks have their way. We have a choice. Now, anyway.
CDFingers