The boy exchanged the handgun for $300 in February. The incident was discovered after ammunition was found in the backpack of the other student Wednesday.

Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed.

A deputy’s son “agreed to exchange a handgun, (later found to belong to his deceased father), for a sum of $300” back in February, the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The Country Oaks Elementary School was placed under lockdown Wednesday morning after the sheriff’s office received a call about “a suspicious incident” on campus. Authorities discovered ammunition in the backpack of the boy who purchased the gun.

The gun was later found in his backyard under a shed, hidden with a 74-gram bag of marijuana, according to investigators.

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    8 months ago

    I mean, we don’t even remember how your nation was formed, and we had to literally kill to NOT be a part of your nation any more, so…that’s part of it.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      31·
      8 months ago

      The US had to kill to not be part of Sweden?

      …

      Wait, the UK is part of northern Europe now?

      This is the first I have ever heard of either!

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        From Wikipedia:

        Northern Europe might be defined roughly to include some or all of the following areas: British Isles, Fennoscandia, the peninsula of Jutland, the Baltic plain that lies to the east, and the many islands that lie offshore from mainland Northern Europe and the main European continent

        So yes - The UK is considered “Northern Europe”.

        • stoy@lemmy.zip
          22·
          8 months ago

          Ah, I have allways thought of the UK as being part of Western Europe, sounds a bit odd including in Northern Europe when it is so far south of Sweden and Norway, but eh I am not quallified to change the definition…