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A 10-year-old Alexandria boy who brought a toy gun to school on Tuesday has been charged.

The boy, whose name is not being released, was charged as a juvenile with brandishing a weapon, police said.
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On Monday, the boy showed the gun to at least one other student during a bus ride home from Douglas MacArthur Elementary School. He neglected to mention that the weapon was fake, Alexandria police spokeswoman Ashley Hildebrandt said.

School staff notified police about the incident Tuesday morning, and police spoke to school administrators before the boy arrived. When the boy got to the school, authorities found a toy replica weapon with an orange tip in his backpack, police said.

The boy was taken into custody and was transported to a juvenile detention center. No one was injured during the incident.

authorities found a toy replica weapon with an orange tip in his backpack, police said.

oldr_n_wsr wrote:

authorities found a toy replica weapon with an orange tip in his backpack, police said.

That's been a law for a while now. Any idiot knows the orange means "TOY".
Zero tolerance = zero intelligence

So a little orange paint on the barrel turns a real gun into a toy? Really.

oldr_n_wsr wrote:

So a little orange paint on the barrel turns a real gun into a toy? Really.

Not what I said.

You said that anything which looked like it had a little orange paint on the barrel was a toy.

rubato wrote:

oldr_n_wsr wrote:

So a little orange paint on the barrel turns a real gun into a toy? Really.

Not what I said.

You said that anything which looked like it had a little orange paint on the barrel was a toy. Meaning that the moment you establish this as a standard. any moron can paint the end of the barrel of a gun orange and disguise it as a toy.

So, it is what you said.

The problem has to be addressed honestly. "How do you deal with children bringing guns or simulated guns into schools?"

yrs,
rubato

oldr_n_wsr wrote:

authorities found a toy replica weapon with an orange tip in his backpack, police said.

That's been a law for a while now. Any idiot knows the orange means "TOY".
Zero tolerance = zero intelligence

rubato, you claim to be a gun owner/former owner/future owner. Glad you live on the west coast.

dales wrote:

rubato, you claim to be a gun owner/former owner/future owner. Glad you live on the west coast.

Hey, I resemble that!

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