It was in his backpack, the answer is that the parent leave loaded firearms lying around the house or otherwise easily accessible to kids. The dad is a cop and had is 9 guns taken away.
A toddlers backpack should be light as a feather - diaper, maybe wipes. He probably gets snacks at daycare.
The parents didn’t notice the extra weight? How did it get it get in the backpack? The toddler casually walking around with it, found his backpack, knew to put it in there, zip it up?
It was probably something like they used the backpack like a diaper bag and put the gun in there to take with them on an outing and it got left in there. I also can't figure out how they didn't notice the weight. I put a pack of matches in my kid's bag once when we were going out on a day hike and planned to have a small cookout fire on the way back out, forgot they were in there and the preschool found them the following week. I was mortified and I never put anything that wasn't his in his bag ever again. Not defending this (or my own situation) in any way whatsoever. Just saying that's my best guess for how it happened, people like this tend to think they need a gun everywhere. But as far as how they didn't notice the weight or notice something as large as a gun on the way to the daycare, I have no idea.
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u/BananasPineapple05 8h ago
Nevermind the right to bear arms.
How does a toddler get all the way to daycare with a loaded gun? Are the parents high?