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Mom Packs Books, Lunch, Pistol for 6-Year-Old

Retired detective leaves gun in school bag

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 23, 2011 4:01 PM CDT

(Newser) – One 6-year-old girl surprised her classmates at a New York school this week by opening her bag and brandishing a .25-caliber handgun—left courtesy of her mom, a retired NYPD detective. "No one was hurt—but maybe she don't know it's a real gun and bang, bang, bang," said one disturbed parent. The girl's mother, Marian Brioso, put her Taurus pistol in the bag for safekeeping but forgot about it, police said.

Shaken classmates met with school therapists the next day, and parents remained distressed by the incident, the New York Daily News reports. "I'm really worried. I don't know why a child would have a gun," said the mother of a second-grader. Brioso wasn't charged, but cops notified the Administration for Children's Services. Her husband, an NYPD captain, opted not to comment on the pistol packing.

A retired NYPD police detective mistakenly packed a pistol in her daughter's school bag this week.
A retired NYPD police detective mistakenly packed a pistol in her daughter's school bag this week.   (Shutterstock)
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hopeandchange
Oct 24, 2011 3:52 PM CDT
"I'm really worried. I don't know why a child would have a gun," If you attend a public school, its makes plenty of sense.
NoddaAndYou
Oct 24, 2011 1:43 PM CDT
I'm all for teaching kids to respect, and understand firearms at a young age, but this is fucking ridiculous. My kids learned at a very young age about the power you wield with a gun, but I would certainly never allow a fucking six-year-old free range of one at school. Christ, man.
justme001
Oct 24, 2011 2:18 AM CDT
You know you have to watch them gay guns near children!  :>

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