Florida high school suspends student for 3 shell casings

By Lee Williams

(Image from licensed Shutterstock account).By Lee WilliamsFlorida Carry, Inc., has filed a lawsuit against the Hillsboro County School District over its decision to suspend a high school student identified in their lawsuit only as “J.S.,” who officials claim brought three spent shell casings into one of their schools.According to the pro-gun group’s lawsuit, school officials learned of the incident via a message sent to them on the FortifyFL app — a “suspicious activity” reporting tool that allows parents or other students to relay information to “appropriate law enforcement agencies and school officials.”The school principal told a Hillsborough County Deputy Sheriff working at the school about the FortifyFL message. The deputy sheriff then searched J.S.’s backpack and conducted a pat down of the young student at around 8 a.m., November 21.“The search revealed three expended metallic casing contained in a Ziploc bag, along with some spare change. The casings had been used while target shooting with J.S.’s parents on a recent excursion,” the lawsuit claims. “The expended casings did not contain any powder, projectiles, shot, bullets, wading, or live primers.”The deputy sheriff told school officials that J.S. had committed no crime by possessing spent shell casings. The youth, the deputy said,

Source: The Gun Writer