Fun With Guns: South Carolina Toy Edition
You know what they say about a man and his toys.
A real gun was found in the toy aisle of Target on Seaboard Street. The police report states a loss prevention worker stumbled upon the gun Friday night.
The gun was in plain view on top of a superhero Playskool toy box when the worker found it; he thought it was a toy. He realized it was real after seeing it was loaded with live ammo.
The fact that it was found in an aisle geared toward children makes some shoppers feel this was no accident.
“I don’t think someone would accidentally drop off a gun. I think he purposely left it there for a child to pick up and think, ‘Oh it’s a toy gun,’ and accidentally point it at somebody and it goes off,” says Kennedy McClain.
I sure it was a perfectly legitimate mistake. They kinda go together. Surely there’s no sickos out here with guns. The NRA is making sure of that.
Thanks to AlanInAustin and Craig for the heads up.
I hope it is registered and they nail the psychotic misopedist who would do such a thing.
1Of course it’s a mistake. Who’s going to leave a $500 gun lying around, especially if they are gun nuts? That’s worse than losing your wallet, financially, and takes away your supreme sense of security in a dangerous world.
No, my theory is that it’s an absent minded shopper with a CCL who pulled out the pistol so he could check whether he had enough money in his pocket for that My Little Pony play set, and then forgot to put it back. He must have been really excited about the play set.
2Just another fun day in the Palmetto Bug State.
3Either theory, Susan F and Ex Tex is scary. Whether a psychopath intentionally wishing harm on children or an airhead too st00pid to keep a weapon safe and secure, neither should be allowed to own a gun.
4Sigh. I aLready protested to Target and bunches of friends. I’m telling you. It’s hard to get young folks interested in politics when they see how easily the super duper rich can buy legislators.
5Now that guns are everywhere, the nutjobs can be as negligent in public as they are at home. It will be interesting to see if anybody tries to claim it.
6The latest news update reports that the police traced the gun registration to the last known owner, a female, whom they are trying to locate. Also, they’re trying to identify and locate a man who showed up on a store surveillance video, who was prowling the toy aisles before the gun was found. The plot thickens because this is in South Carolina and the man and woman being sought are black. That’ll likely bring the loonies out to comment.
7@ Umpty #7- because this is South Carolina and the sought after perps might be black it’s obvious the weapon was purchased with a SNAP card or a welfare check.
8Handguns cost a lot of money. And Republicans are the only ones with that kind of disposable income to buy a handgun and simply leave it laying around.
9The saving grace is nobody ‘found’ it and pulled the trigger. Guns all have serial numbers, so it should be fairly easy to find out who bought the gun in the first place. Or doesn’t
pRick Perry’s Texas keep those kinds of records?
donquijoterocket, oh what a find, if some gun nut shop is found trading SNAP for snuff tools. But….
South Carolina has college sports, minor league franchises and isn’t but a gun shot from North Carolina and several major league teams.
Thinking back to good ol’ Florida or maybe some other southern state where some pro-ballers trophy squeeze ‘accidentally’ left her armament in a rental car.
Thinking the ‘she’ might might be lucky this time, if she was in Target to buy some cutesy toy to announce to her ‘him’ that she’s preggers. If he isn’t as excited as she is, not having a weapon in the house might save her life.
In this instance my “thinking” does equal speculation. But for someone to be a sufficient airhead to misplace a gun, can’t help but reflect on the previous “oops did I do that” gold digger.
10If someone leaves a bag or a briefcase or other package unattended – – there’s an evacuation, and the bomb squad is called in with a padded robot to carry the item to a remote area for detonation. That’s how we handle a lost gift or forgotten business papers.
But a loaded gun? Business as usual.
11So was it stupidity or malice. Tough call these days.
12Rumour has it some precocious toddlers disarmed a suspected pedophile and mistook his NRA hat to mean no rubber allergies. So they strapped a self inflating rubber love doll to his back and she blew them both up. Remember,this is just a rumour.
13First reaction from Wingnuttia: it’s an obvious plant by anti-gun people to discredit freedom-loving, law-abiding, discriminated-against ammosexuals.
As if!
14Guess I’m buying my daughter (now living and working in SC) body armor for Christmas.
15@Rick, it’s usually pretty obvious what a gun is, and it’s very simple to unload it without endangering anyone, unless it’s a police officer doing it, in which case all bets are off – police are some of the worst gun handlers you will ever see. A bag or briefcase may conceal anything, and the authorities generally err on the side of caution when dealing with them.
@Marge, why would you protest to Target? This was a stupid customer trick, not some evil corporate plan to scare the patrons.
16http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/07/1305095/-Bill-Maher-goes-after-Open-Carry-ammosexuals?
The inimitable Bill Maher, on guns in restaurants and other public places.
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