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Gun being held as evidence after boys find it in movie theater

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Please, please - explain again why some of you think every American should be able to carry a firearm at all times

Gun being held as evidence after boys find it in movie theater

TILLAMOOK, OR (KPTV) -

A group of seventh-grade students on a field trip to see The Hobbit found a loaded gun in a movie theater Wednesday morning. Tillamook school Superintendent Randy Schild said 125 students went on the field trip to Tillamook Coliseum Theatre as a reward for good grades.

As the first group of children entered the theater to sit down, two boys found the gun on the ground in the theater aisle.

"(I thought) was it real? Is it loaded?" said Kolton McKinney, about the discovery.

The boy next to Kolton, Levi Crabtree, immediately told a school staff worker, who in turn called police.

"I'm a boy scout and Kolton and me took a hunter safety class," said Levi, about his decision not to touch the gun. "One of the rules is that you treat all guns as if they're loaded."
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The best part of the tale - the man who lost the piece didn't think he needed to report to the police that he had lost a loaded weapon. :doh
 
The eager reader breathlessly awaits the point of the thread!
 
Presumably the ****wit who lost it and didn't think he had to report it missing was legally entitled to carry it. Isn't it lucky it was registered to him, and he didn't buy it at a gun show?
 
Manc Skipper said:
Presumably the ****wit who lost it and didn't think he had to report it missing was legally entitled to carry it. Isn't it lucky it was registered to him, and he didn't buy it at a gun show?
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maybe he did buy it at a gun show, as it would still have to be registered....Oh, and complete fail in your attempt to make all CCW holders to be this dumb.
 
As for the OP, the kid who alerted the teacher did exactly what a responsible person familiar with firearms should have done. If he were not familiar with firearms, maybe he would have tried to play with it too. Perhaps it was firearms training and/or experience that saved the day as we have no idea from the article whose gun it was to begin with. While one might argue about the irresponsibility of the person who lost it; one can likewise argue that kids should be taught firearm safety in school. Two sides to every coin and all that......
 
Somerville said:
Oh have you ever missed the point - but not unexpected
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Oh for Christ's sake! You TELL ME THEN, WHAT WAS YOUR DAMNED POINT THEN>? I AM SO SICK OF THIS BULL ****! MISS THIS
 
You mean someone found a gun and nobody died?

Interesting.
 
Oh boy. Are we gonna have an article every time someone sees a gun now?

What exactly am I supposed to be outraged about here?
 
Holy **** there is a gun in my room and it's looking at me. Save me oh ye immaculate president.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Presumably the ****wit who lost it and didn't think he had to report it missing was legally entitled to carry it. Isn't it lucky it was registered to him, and he didn't buy it at a gun show?
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One thing I have learned in mi limited experience with gun purchase is that you don't buy a gun from a storefront dealer on a day when there are several gun shows going on in the state., The wait for an instant background check can be quite long. All firearms dealers at the shows have the same rules as if they were in a store. The single exception is a few private individuals who are selling their own private collections, and these tend to be collectors guns. Nor, for that matter, have I ever seen semis in the parking lot loading guns into trunks of cars for transport to NYC. The gun show loophole is mostly myth.

If a person carrying legally misplaces his firearm and doesn't report it, he is indeed an idiot. He may have not been aware that it was missing, but he was still an idiot.

As for the kids who found the weapon, their firearms training did them good. I had training in scouts. 90% safety, 10% use.
 
I think we should have civilian Drill Instructors who find asswipes like this and crawl up their ass and tie their tonsils just like they would for a boot who mishandled his rifle.

The point is that he didn't leave his cell phone , he left a loaded pistol in a facility often frequented by children. Where is R. Lee Ermey when you need him.

Then we hear the squawking about how the gun haters are going to be storming the media. Forget the gun haters it is the moron gun owners doing the damage very well without any help. Good grief in roughly one week we have had a dad shoot and kill his 7 yr old son, another idiot showing how his safety work and shot himself in the face and now this taco. Yes, everybody should have a gun . Captial B Capital S.

No , the moron gun owners are doing just fine by themselves so the gun haters can go sit this one out.
 
I think the OP's point was that this guy was personally a douche bag and too scared to report that he lost his gun. Therefore I assume he probably wants to enact some form of taxation on the average gun owner to make guns harder to get. (be that paying for more expensive hoops to jump through or a literal tax) As if this will somehow magically cleanse the world of douchebags.
 
Another law abiding citizen. Secure your guns? Right.
 
Somerville said:
Please, please - explain again why some of you think every American should be able to carry a firearm at all times



The best part of the tale - the man who lost the piece didn't think he needed to report to the police that he had lost a loaded weapon. :doh
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Could you post a link to the story?

I would like to know if the gun owner was arrested and his house searched for guns.

The man who brought the gun into the theater is the equivalent of a drunk driver, putting other people, children in this case, at risk.
 
Somerville said:
Please, please - explain again why some of you think every American should be able to carry a firearm at all times



The best part of the tale - the man who lost the piece didn't think he needed to report to the police that he had lost a loaded weapon. :doh
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Second time I've failed to provide a link - shame on me

Boys find gun in movie theater during 'Hobbit' field trip - KPTV - FOX 12

UPDATE: Gary Quackenbush, 61, has been charged with recklessly endangering another person, a class A misdemeanor. Tillamook County District Attorney Bill Porter filed charges against Quackenbush December 18, after students found Quackenbush's loaded gun in the Coliseum Theater. From the complaint: "The said defendant, on or about December 19, 2012, in illamook County, State of Oregon, did unlawfully and recklessly create a substantial risk of serious injury to other persons, contrary to the statutes in such cases made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of Oregon."
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