About a year ago the local news led with a story about a man entering the county courthouse with a homemade pistol. It was just a simple singleshot pen-shaped gun. He TOLD the deputies he had it before he went through the detectors. Anyways, the sheriff was on the news absolutely outraged that this gun existed and spoke of how his deputies saved everyones lives with their eagle eyes. He also said it was made just to be able to sneak past security checkpoints.
Ok, forget what I wrote. I looked for the article - here it is -
www.charlotte.com/0502weapon.htmTurned out he had a concealed carry permit and told the deputies at the metal detectors it was a firearm. What a criminal.
I espically like these parts -
Pendergraph said Low pulled from his pocket a knife and a magazine clip loaded with .25-caliber bullets. Low then pulled out what appeared to be a pen and told deputies it was a gun, the sheriff said.
"I knew what it was, as soon as I saw it," Deputy Jim Wilson told reporters at a news conference.
Pendergraph praised Wilson and the other three deputies - Scott White, C.D. Owens and Robert Sherwin - for spotting the disguised handgun.
"I'm proud of them," the sheriff said. "They were on their toes. That's what they're trained to do - look for these things.
"Court security is serious business. These deputies are on the front line to protect the people who use our courts."