Welcome to Orlando, would your son like a gun.....

[Beagle]

…in his teddy bear? This could have ended unhappily.

The TSA found a loaded .22-caliber gun after the bear was opened. The boy’s family told investigators that the bear was a gift from a girl at the hotel where they stayed during their Orlando vacation.

“She appeared at their hotel room door and offered them the bear,” said Robert Johnson, a TSA spokesman in Washington. “The mother said it was OK and so the boy took it.”

The Miami Herald reported that the gun had been concealed by cutting a half-inch hole at the bottom of the bear, and that the gun had been reported stolen in 1996 in California.

This is the only time I’ve heard of the right to arm bears actually being applied in real life, even here in Orlando. Less than one percent of all teddy bears in Orlando contain loaded firearms I would guess. Disney only includes crack in their stuffed animals.

[World_Eater]

:eek:

[SexyHamster]

I’m having troubles believing you wouldn’t notice the extra 2-3lbs of gun-shaped weight inside the stuffed critter.

I suppose it could be one of the lighter 1-2 shot guns.

[3waygeek]

According to CNN, the gun was a Derringer, which tend to be quite small.

[Q.E.D]

Beagle, you got scooped. By five hours, even.