Police: Videos show 1-year-old putting handgun in mouth

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Associated Press

Police: Videos show 1-year-old putting handgun in mouth
| January 10, 2015

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana couple faces charges after investigators say they found cellphone videos showing the woman's 12-month-old daughter putting a handgun in her mouth.

Evansville police discovered the videos after a 19-year-old man was arrested for trying to sell a handgun to an undercover officer.

Police say the man and the girl's 22-year-old mother can be heard encouraging the toddler to say "pow" and that no one tried to stop her as she put the gun in her mouth.

Police say the mother told officers the girl was holding a pellet gun; investigators say it was a .40-caliber handgun. They say the gun's magazine appeared to be removed but it's not clear if ammunition was in the chamber.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Police-Videos-show-1-year-old-putting-handgun-in-6006522.php

[louis-t]

1. No words...

[elleng]

2. Whatever the heck it was

they should be condemned for doing such. So ignorant! Babies/little kids put everything in their mouths, and this will clearly result in harm.

[arcane1]

3. Because a pellet gun is so harmless to an infant.

Idiots

[Indydem]

4. As a 2A supporter and gun enthusiast

I find this kind of shit repugnant.

This is the kind of thing that should be added to NICS and any future purchases of firearms for these idiots should be banned.

Unfortunately, this isn't going to happen. And equally unfortunate, I'm not sure what right the police had to search this mans phone videos after he was charged with an unrelated crime.

God damnit people make me hate people some times.

[NBachers]

5. And they're breeding . . .

[progressoid]

6. JHChrist.

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