Another responsible gun owner at a Ikea store that I know family members have visited. It's so comforting knowing there are many idiots who think they need to arm themselves but they've got no more business carrying a lethal weapon than any given animal at any given zoo.
PUBLISHED: 14 MINUTES AGO
FISHERS, Ind. (AP) Police say a child fired a shot from a loaded handgun after finding it in a sofa at an Ikea store in suburban Indianapolis.
Fishers police say no one was injured from the gunshot about 2 p.m. Monday at the furniture store along Interstate 69 just northeast of Indianapolis.
Police Sgt. Tom Weger says the handgun's owner wasn't aware the weapon dropped from his pants when he sat on the sofa. The child later found the gun in the sofa cushions. The child's age wasn't released.
Weger says no arrests were immediately made and that the Hamilton County prosecutor's office would decide whether to file any criminal charges.
Ikea said in a statement it has a no weapons policy for its stores and that it was cooperating with police.
-- Edited by Cy Valley on Monday 25th of June 2018 01:58:04 PM
What if a bad guy with a gun decided he wanted to sit on that IKEA couch while our erstwhile good guy with a gun was sitting in the same place? The good guy could have stood his ground and shot him. You obviously don't know how many times crimes like this happen inside IKEAs.
