History teacher’s rifle triggers school lockdown. But there’s just one problem.

By Dave Urbanski

A parent dropping off his child at Florida’s Braden River Middle School last week quickly dialed 911 after seeing a man walking into the school carrying what looked like a rifle as well as bag that may have contained ammunition.

“He’s got an older-model shotgun or rifle,” the caller said on Thursday’s 911 recording, WTVT-TV reported. “He’s got a bag that looked like ammunition.”

“And where are the weapons now?” the dispatcher inquired, the station said.

“He was walking right into the school with it,” the caller answered, according to WTVT.

That prompted a lockdown at the Bradenton school, the station said.

And indeed it turns out the object was a rifle — and more than that, it was being carried by a teacher at the middle school.

Problem was, however, that the rifle is a Civil War-era replica the history teacher brought in to show students that day, the Bradenton Herald reported. The rifle can’t be fired, the station said.

The teacher previously informed a school resource officer about the rifle, the paper reported, but the officer wasn’t aware the teacher was bringing it in Thursday. Michael Barber, spokesperson for Manatee County Schools, told the Herald that administrators …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze