NYPD: 8-Year-Old Brings Loaded 9mm To School, Sells It For $3

Stunt Lands Boy's Father In Fail And Facing Heap Of Charges

April 29, 2011 10:30 PM

A child accidentally brought a .25 caliber pistol to Transfiguration School. Gun above is not .25 caliber. (credit: CBS 2)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There was a gun scare at a Queens school earlier this week. A third-grader brought a loaded 9mm and allegedly sold it to another student for $3.

The boy’s father then landed in jail, CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman reports.

Guzman visited the boy’s house on Friday and then the school, P.S. 107, where he brought the weapon. Police said the 9mm Taurus contained three live rounds. The father, 54-year-old Ignacio Galvan, spent Thursday night locked up as a result.

The father told authorities he kept the gun on top of the refrigerator. The boy who purchased it brought it home and his mother saw it. She went back to the school furious. The NYPD was called.

“[The gun] should be locked up. I don’t know the full story of that whole home situation, so I can’t really comment, but it’s terrible,” said Colette McArdle, co-president of the school’s PTA.

Galvan was arrested on two felony gun charges, a third felony charge, and also for endangering the welfare of a child. The serial numbers on the gun had been scratched off, one reason why the father has been in jail since Thursday. His son was expected to face juvenile charges.

The father told police he had had the gun for years, and kept it for self-defense.

Should any security changes be made in the school after this incident? Leave a comment below…

NYPD: 8 Year Old Brings Loaded 9mm To School, Sells It For $3

Ignacio Galvan

I guess I won’t store it under the kids pillow ever again. That was stupid of me.
On to more important matters: where’s my beer?

parent

Yes you are a idiot, I guess the rotten apple does fall far from the tree. Bad parents, bad kids

Ignacio Galvan

parent,

Beer me.

NJ Marine

I have had guns in my house for 50 years, My kids were brought up shooting and hunting. I never would expect this from a child that was properly educated on gun safety. This is the parents fault and should be held liable. Blame the problem, not the item. The gun caused no issue, the child did, because his father is an idiot. There is no cure for stupid, except death
My boys are responsible gun owners today as their dad is.
aConcernedParent

A medal detector maybe.The thing about it though is that the school dont care no more than some parents.If it went off they would be passed though without checking.The system is no better than the parrents that dont care.Wake up.Kids die younger and more offen because of simple mistacks.

Smell Check

aConcerned,

Did you even attend “skool”?

Skool iz fer luzers

No, The school don’t care no more.

PS 107 Alumnus

I graduated from that school. My son graduated from that school. The safety measures there are in keeping with the neighborhood. This is an isolated incident that has nothing to do with the school, its management or the town of Flushing. The parent in question is the one who should bear the burden of punishment. The school followed proper protocol after the parent of the child who bought the weapon brought it back to the school administration. I don’t know that I’d have gone back to the school with the gun in my personal possession – I would have called the police and had them handle the situation. I am very sorry that this incident happened at all – regardless of the neighborhood.
d1nonly

Hide yo kids! Hide yo wife! Hide yo husbands! they killin erebody in Flushing!
Craig Morgan

if he didnt pay anything for the gun thats a $3 profit. are you people mad that he didnt get more money for the gun?
Julie

Security CHANGES should of been done BEFORE this incident!!!! At that point this would of NEVER happened and the school would of been safe.. It makes you wonder why Tragedy has to happen first before action is taken!!!

PS 107 Alumnus

As a parent who had a child in this school, and as a former student, I can tell you without fear of contradiction that there are proper procedures in the school regarding the overall safety of the children in attendence.

Dee N

I grew up in Flushing across the street from ps 20. Used to be such a nice neighborhood, now its not the same anymore. Glad I moved out.
Holly

I live in Flushing. So glad I am on vactaion now.
sawnetbean

I gun in a home is 20 times more likely to result in the death of a family member than an intruder.

ahdaam

How many times more likely is it that a violent intruder kills an unarmed occupant over an armed occupant?

dtcamero

most likely the intruder just wants to rob you… if you start acting like this is the wild west then you and the (previously nonviolent) robber get in a shootout and kill you, and possibly your children or whomever. there is a reason why there are 10,000 gun deaths a year in america, vs. the second highest country in the developed world, germany with 450 a year… bc other countries have sensible gun controls.
Snibblets

@dtcamero: here’s a reality check for you. Most gun deaths come from illegal guns. All gun control does is keep guns out of the hands of people who want them legally. It’s a feel-good measure for the anti-gun crowd. The problem won’t go away until illegal guns go away, which will never happen as we have over 200 million illegal guns in this country.
ahdaam

re dtcamero: feel free to lay down and let an intruder have his way with your home and family. Not me. Nor anyone with a family and a full set . yours is exactly the attitude which emboldens these animals. And “just rob you”? are you high? Is that really an assumption you are willing to make? If you are in your house, where you could access your cowboy weapon, any intruder willing to enter a situation like that would certainly be ready and willing to do more than rob you and your family. A sensible gun law is one which allows armed law-abiding citizens to defend themselves against armed criminals

gary

You are fourteen times more likely to die of heart disease if you have cheese in your home than if you are cheese free. You are also 20 times more likely to die of obesity if you buy food on a regular basis than if you resist the temptation.

misterb1972

Yes, owning a weapon with a scratched off serial number isn’t good. The government needs to know everything about you. Endangering the well being of a child, nah. You can’t control what your child does or doesnt do 24/7.
ren

if you google Ignacio Galvan.. you’ll get one with facebook.. i dont know if its the same person but click the profile picture album and you’ll see another gun there..
Arslan

Idk… thats a pretty good deal…
Bell Toller

The police have no right to charge this parent, This arrest is definitely based on ethicitiy.

kal

this has nothing to do with ethnicity and everything to do with lack of responsibility on the part of the parent. he’s lucky the gun didn’t go off and injure or kill someone.

Theham

You sure that gun still works its looks like beat up
Ralph

Let’s just thank God that this story didn’t have a tragic ending like so many do when a child finds a gun in the house. Keeping a gun in the house for protection is stupid.
If you properly store the gun, like you’re supposed to, by the time you find the box, unlock it, and put it the clip, the perp has already unmounted the TV off the wall and stole your beer out of the fridge. Or, you could just keep accessible for you or your 8 year old could find it.
nyc

As someone who has met with school superintendants to increase school security, I can tell you they have no money ! Criminal situation will continue to happen and after someone gets killed (God forbid ) action will be taken. Our country mentallity has always been reactive rather then proactive !

jazzyshoa

Reactive rather than proactive says it all.

HARLEM GOING H.A.M.

SAD STORY. AS A PARENT , I DON’T ALLOW ANY GUNS IN MY HOUSE. FURTHERMORE, I REFUSE TO BUY MY SON THE PLAY GUNS TOO. THAT CHILD OR ANOTHER CHILD, OR CHILDREN, COULD BE DEAD. THANK GOD NOBODY GOT HURT
http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com HooDatIS?

THAT IS SCARY
LOCK THAT FOOL UP
TAKE THE CHILD OUT OF THE HOME
LOCK UP EVERYBODY
VISIT MY BLOG
http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/the-pancake-brawl-ghetto-girls-destory-ihop/
jerseyjoey

Well, i had said for years we need a culling provision in our birthing wards or otherwise more stupid people will vote the liberal tickit. The gun shown looks like a hot used piece bought of a street corner, stupid in stupid out.

Bonnie

The gun issues are a conservative issue and not a liberal one you moron!
Snibblets

You spelled “ticket” and “off” wrong. You shouldn’t be calling anyone stupid.

Vindicated

That’s it! Send them all off to Space Camp for the summer.
karlson

Lockdown the exits and install magnetometers on the front door with school guards. The inmates are running the asylum!
john

let the law takes its course . the parent should be fine and jail
Pi$$ed off Long Islander

This makes me think of a one-liner from an old episode of the TV show ER years ago.. “Stupid people shouldn’t breed!”

Urine idiot

Pi$$,

Too late, in your case.

KPMc

Security changes in the school? No… just sterilization of the parents. And if the second parent sent her kid back to school with the gun instead of calling the police include her too. What is wrong with people?

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