David Codrea: Gun owners and opponents should share interest in Target ‘gun' case

A gun reportedly found in the toy aisle at a Myrtle Beach Target store is being seized on to pressure the retailer and others into banning guns from their stores. The firearm, an inexpensive Hi-Point 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, was reportedly found by a loss prevention worker, NBC’s WMBF News reported in a still-updating story.

The incident draws further attention to a controversy that anti-gun activists have seized on to with media support, and one that has caused no small amount of argument within the pro-gun community over the advisability of putting businesses in the middle of open carry protests. Even NRA was drawn into the controversy with a statement using words like “weird” that was later partially pulled back as unauthorized.

The debate aside, one Target customer interviewed in the WMBF story made an observation that has set sides to pointing fingers.

"I don't think someone would accidentally drop off a gun. I think he purposely left it there for a child to pick up and think, 'Oh it's a toy gun,' and accidentally point it at somebody and it goes off," shopper Kennedy McClain offered.

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