LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Authorities in Little Rock say a second-grader at Daisy Bates Elementary School is recommended for expulsion after bringing a cocked and loaded pistol to school to show a friend.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department said Thursday that the 8-year-old boy had the gun in his backpack and showed it to a friend, who alerted a teacher.
The boy, who is not being named because of his age, told a sheriff's deputy he had hoped to play cowboys and Indians with the .22-caliber revolver.
The investigative report says the boy's father was shaken and told deputies the pistol should have been in a locked gun cabinet.
The report says the school principal will recommend the boy be expelled.
Under Arkansas law, kids under age 10 cannot be charged with crimes.
Investigators, also say, they don't believe the child had any bad intentions.
(The Associated Press & Today's THV )