Eagle Scout Facing Expulsion over Gun Charge

I would have said "oh shit", and covered the shotgun up with something, then went into school. Loose lips sink ships.

But he DID get a scholarship to the college he wanted to go to anyway, and that's very cool!

Uh...how did he knowingly and willingly bring it onto campus if he only realized it was there after he got his book bag?

I never parked on school grounds because I often would go shooting before or after school, especially during dove season.

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Originally Posted by Gunner

Its all BS. I had a friend suspened in High school for a clear airsoft gun with an orange muzzle. It was in his backseat and someone saw it. Always busting the good guys

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How times change.

1977 - Beginning of my sophomore year of HS, I took my Rem 700 .243 to school, to wood shop class. Disassembled, locked the barrel/action/scope in the teachers office, refinished the stock. End of the week, reassembled the rifle, took it out to my truck (1956 F100) and put it in the gun rack, did not even lock the truck. Took it home after football practice.

In a HS with 120± kids total, probably would have needed more toes and fingers than God blessed me with to count all the gun is gun racks in the parking lot. No one ever got shot or even threatened with a gun. Fist fights, sure. Right next to unlocked cars with guns.

Ah, the Montana of old.

In 1986 when I started high school half the vehicles in the parking lot were trucks, and most of those had gun racks with at least one gun, a couple of fishing rods, and maybe a bow. Times, indeed, have changed.

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Originally Posted by losttrail

How times change.

1977 - Beginning of my sophomore year of HS, I took my Rem 700 .243 to school, to wood shop class. Disassembled, locked the barrel/action/scope in the teachers office, refinished the stock. End of the week, reassembled the rifle, took it out to my truck (1956 F100) and put it in the gun rack, did not even lock the truck. Took it home after football practice.

In a HS with 120± kids total, probably would have needed more toes and fingers than God blessed me with to count all the gun is gun racks in the parking lot. No one ever got shot or even threatened with a gun. Fist fights, sure. Right next to unlocked cars with guns.

Ah, the Montana of old.

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We had hunting guns in vehicles in Alabama in the late 70s, and the JROTC had a rifle range in the basement of our high school. Guns were never any issue. However, the JROTC cadet officers did lose their sabers when one yay-hoo went after a teacher with one.

You guys are all lucky... you probably would have gone insane (as I almost did) going to high school immediately following Columbine.

Did the Felony charge stand? From reading it looks that way but I can not imagine a judge going along with this. Ironically it would also mean he can't own a gun anymore. Messed up!

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Originally Posted by Hound

Did the Felony charge stand? From reading it looks that way but I can not imagine a judge going along with this. Ironically it would also mean he can't own a gun anymore. Messed up!

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This ^^

I can't imagine it will stand. Man, I really hope there's some logic to this sh!t.