NC Eagle Scout facing felony charge

[1911 Junkie]

I don't recall reading anywhere that he lost a gun. Try again.

[WatchManUSA]

so the question remains, how do you lose a gun?      i have never understood how people can lose very important/ expensive things.   

Why so are you so judgemental?  I don't believe he technically "lost" the shotgun.  I believe there is a distinction between something being lost and forgetting to put something back in its usual and customary place.

[MikeBjerum]

TAB,

Pretend that you live in a free nation and that having a firearm is a part of normal life.  They are not something stored in a vault, taken out five seconds before use, and returned while still hot.  As I think back over the past 29 years (May of '84 is when we moved to this place - I think Tuesday will be the anniversary) there are very few times that there has not been at least one gun in my pickup, and that includes when others were using it.

[TAB]

i am not saying there is a issue withh having a gun in the truck, but forgetting about where you put a gun is not a mistake,  its neglagent.   

[Solus]

i am not saying there is a issue withh having a gun in the truck, but forgetting about where you put a gun is not a mistake,  its neglagent.   

That may be, but the fact is that he did not intentionally bring the gun to school.  No crime.

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[TAB]

i never said it should be a crime, but he did f..k up pretty bad.   I can see if something like a mag or some ammo fell out of a bag, but not a gun.  That goes way past the  oops level for me. 

[blackwolfe]

so the question remains, how do you lose a gun?      i have never understood how people can lose very important/ expensive things.   

Happens all the time TAB, I guess you're just better than every one else.

[MikeBjerum]

TAB,

Once again you need to come on over to the real world.  There is a big difference between forgetting where you put or left a gun, and living a lifestyle where guns are a normal item and using them is a normal activity.  Am I wrong because I often leave my sporting or hunting guns in the pickup for weeks or even months?  Is it wrong that I often have a handgun stored in the pickup?  Perhaps I'm an idiot because I need to check which shotgun is in the pickup once in awhile.  Then of course there is always the moment that I realize that my wife took off with a handgun in the overhead bin in the pickup, and the quick call to tell her to stash it.

There are many safe ways to transport and keep firearms in vehicles that are safe.  That is not the issue here as much as we live in a world that has become over populated with sheep.

[TAB]

DO you forget about those guns and take them places where its illegal to have them?   there is a huge diffrence between having a gun in the car vs forgeting about it.

[Solus]

DO you forget about those guns and take them places where its illegal to have them?   there is a huge diffrence between having a gun in the car vs forgeting about it.

Exactly.  If you have a gun in the car and go onto school property and you REMEMBERED  the gun was there before you parked, you have broken the law.

On the other hand, if you did the same thing not remembering it was there, you broke no law.