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The boy found the weapon and immediately alerted his teachers. It’s not clear how the firearm — a “.38-caliber handgun loaded with five rounds of ammunition,” reports the AP — made its way into the boy’s posession, though, since he claims to have carried the backpack with him in class all day.
This report continues to paint a picture of classrooms ready for warfare. In the months since the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, reports have rolled in about parents arming their children or giving them bulletproof backpacks to use as protection against guns.
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