No federal charges will be filed against a gun owner whose weapon discharged at a graduation ceremony Sunday in Augusta.
The gun owner wounded himself and a bystander when the gun he had stuffed into his sock accidentally discharged.
Augusta Police Chief Tyler Brewer says that the federal law prohibits carrying a gun into a safe school zone, but he says the law does not apply when the gun owner has a state concealed carry permit. Brewer says they will still pursue other possible charges.
"We are presenting the case to the county attorney in hopes that there will be state charges, but those state charges would only consist of a Class B misdemeanor, but the county attorney will also look to see if there was anything like reckless endangerment or anything that aggravated that particular incident," he says.
Chief Brewer says the case will be presented sometime this week.
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