Secure your gun
And a case against off body carry:
A building contractor who is renovating rooms at Extended Stay Suites in Columbia told police a pistol was stolen from his toolbox.
The contractor, Donnie Rosenbaum, said an unloaded Keltic .380-caliber pistol was in his unsecured toolbox in his room at the motel on Nashville Highway, according to a Columbia Police Department report. Rosenbaum’s son said he saw one of Rosenbaum’s employees take the handgun because Rosenbaum’s 13-year-old nephew was present and he did not want the teen having access to it.
March 5th, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Then the kind, caring, concerned employee promptly loses the pistol.
The employee then “saw a police car coming into the parking lot, where he remembered he had the pistol in his back pocket, and put it in a sack of garbage,” according to the report. He allegedly told officers he is not supposed to be in possession of a firearm and “did not want to get into trouble,” the report stated. The trash bin at the motel was searched by Rosenbaum’s employees, but a bag containing a pistol was never found, according to the report.
March 6th, 2015 at 9:00 am
Pet peeve, Spitting Into The Wind Department: Why do media who have internet sites not tell us where they are? The linked Daily Herald stories reference “Columbia”, but which Columbia? Maryland, South Carolina, Alabama, New Jersey…turns out there are 30 states with cities of that name. This one turns out to be Columbia, Tennessee, but we shouldn’t have to do scavenger hunts to find where the story originated.