[DaveA37]

In my early years I owned several “real” guns and yes, a genuine Red Ryder, lever action BB gun. Amazingly thru all those years(almost 70 now) never once did one of those guns jump up and shoot at anything. In fact, some of those guns were loaded at the time but alas, no harm came to anything be it animal, bird or human. Now why do you suppose that happened all those years?

Some poor kid lost his BB gun in the woods (unloaded to boot) and will never find it again. It is a sad country we have become.

[Charles Martel]

Some poor kid lost his BB gun in the woods (unloaded to boot) and will never find it again. It is a sad country we have become.

Yes, it's possibly a lost gun. That's hard for me to accept, though, as I still have mine (1960 vintage) with most of the finish worn off of the metal and wood. In the years of hard use I put on it, I never once lost it in the woods.

So, alternate possibility: School employee finds old BB gun at home in his closet, then hatches scheme to "find" it near the school. Our hero.