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Thursday, July 17, 2003

The Right to Keep and Arm Bears...Airport workers find gun in teddy bear

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Airport security workers found a loaded handgun stuffed inside a brown teddy bear that a 10-year-old boy was carrying on a trip home after his family's Florida vacation, authorities said Thursday.

The FBI is investigating how the gun got inside the teddy bear.

A Transportation Security Administration worker noticed the outline of a gun when the bear passed through an X-ray machine at Orlando International Airport on Saturday.

The TSA found a loaded .22-caliber gun after the bear was opened. The boy's family told investigators that the bear was a gift from a girl at the hotel where they stayed during their Orlando vacation.

"She appeared at their hotel room door and offered them the bear," said Robert Johnson, a TSA spokesman in Washington. "The mother said it was OK and so the boy took it."

The Miami Herald reported that the gun had been concealed by cutting a half-inch hole at the bottom of the bear, and that the gun had been reported stolen in 1996 in California. [...]

Just a thought, but the next time a person comes to your hotel room and gives you a rather heavy and lumpy teddy bear, it might not be the best idea to accept it. Even if it's free.

posted by Terry at 3:01:00 PM

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