[B]With great power, comes great responsibility.[/B]

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Gina1

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With great power, comes great responsibility.

I don't know about you guys, but when I'm carrying a concealed weapon, with a CCW permit. I never forget about it. I feel the weight and the legal responsibility, of it at all times when out in public.

So one has to wonder about this fellow, especially with a 1941 Beretta.

TILLAMOOK, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon man has been arraigned on one charge of recklessly endangering another person after leaving a loaded gun at a Tillamook movie theater.

The Oregonian reports 61-year-old Gary Warren Quackenbush appeared in Tillamook County Circuit Court on Monday to hear the misdemeanor charge. He then asked for a court-appointed attorney, which Judge Jonathan Hill denied after determining that Quackenbush didn't qualify for one.

Quackenbush went to a screening of "The Hobbit" at the Coliseum Theatre with his wife and a 1941 model Beretta. The gun slipped out of his holster.

Two seventh-graders on a school field trip on Dec. 19 discovered the gun when one of them pushed the seat down and it fell out. The boys told a teacher, who called police.

Police took the pistol as evidence, and revoked Quackenbush's concealed handgun permit.

Gina
 
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Gina1 said:
...when I'm carrying a concealed weapon...I never forget about it. I feel the weight and the legal responsibility, of it at all times when out in public.

So one has to wonder about this fellow...
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I found a gun once. It was sitting on top of the ice machine in the deli on the first floor of a major federal building in a major metropolitan area. (I'm going to keep the location details vague; the guy could still lose his job if he hasn't already retired. And given that I've worked in several dozen federal buildings in my life, that should suffice.) Actually, what I found was a fanny pack. I picked it up, knew instantly from the weight what was in it, and held it high over my head. I got everybody's attention and asked if anyone wanted to claim it. No one did.

I trooped out to the guard station, handed it to a guard, and told him "One of the SAs in the building has apparently had a brain fart. This was left in the deli."

He looked confused, took the pack from me, then went wide-eyed. "Damn," he said, "somebody done screwed up." He opened it and a Sig with a couple of magazines was clearly visible. He found some ID and told me he'd take care of it. The owner turned out to be the Special Agent in Charge of the local State Department Office of Diplomatic Security.

People make mistakes. :)
 
alinwa said:
the name says it all.
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Excellent observation Al, We had fun discussions about the name CHISM in freshman Biology. My ancestors didn't have a clue of it's significance,because they never bothered to look up the definition of the word.




Glenn
 
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TILLAMOOK, I was there the other day, Huge ice cream factory & shop. I'm actually surprised the dummy had a concealed carry permit to start with. Pretty darn liberal out there !!!
 
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