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Manchester Evening News, 13 July 2000
Toddlers' game with a loaded gun
by Neal Keeling
Two toddlers wer discovered playing a deadly game after they
found a loaded sawn-off shotgun dumped by criminals.
The children, aged four and three, were already playing with
a toy machine gun when they discovered the real weapon and
five rounds of live ammunition hidden in bushes just feet
from their home in Swinton.
They then started to take aim at each other and swapped the
guns. It was later found that there were two live rounds in
each barrel of the gun.
Today the mother of one of the boys said it was a 'miracle'
that neither was killed. The deadly game ended when the
sister of the four-year-old spotted the gun. She ran inside
to alert her parents, who took the gun off the boys.
A police armed response team was sent to deal with the incident.
Chief Inspector John Carlin, of Swinton police, said: "This
was a very disturbing incident. It is a miracle that neither
of the children who found the gun was injured or worse. We
are using every means at our disposal to try and identify who
left it there."
The toddlers found the gun and cartridges in an Aldi supermarket
bag. It had been dumped in a garden, built down the middle of
Mount Street as a traffic calming measure. The incident
happened only 250 yards from Swinton police headquarters.
The mother of the three-year-old said: "I was at the door and
heard the other boy's sister shout 'It's a real gun'. I ran
over and the boys were arguing as to whose go it was next
with the real gun. They were pointing it at each other. My
son had some of the cartridges in his pocket. Why they didn't
pull the trigger I don't know - it was a miracle. My boyfriend
ran out and took it off them, brought it back into the house
and called the police. It is hard to believe this would
happen on your own doorstep. The bag was just partly buried
in soil and the boys pulled it out. I asked one officer if
they would have been killed if it had gone off and he said
'Without a doubt'."
The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes,
which have been in the street for more than 20 years, removed.
Stuart Heal
Quiet loner with an arsenal of weapons.
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