Gun Policy News
Child Finds Gun Under Seat of Rental Car
22 January 2000
Oregonian (Portland)
When two California sisters rented a car in Oregon, they got much more than they bargained for.
While driver Heather Harrington waited in the car in a Lake Oswego parking lot for her sister and their cousin to return from a nearby shop, she was suddenly interrupted by her cousin's 4-year-old son, who called out in a shaky voice from the back seat:
"Aunt Heather, there's a gun."
He had found a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic pistol wedged under the driver's seat.
The boy,... (GunPolicy.org)