An 8-year-old boy brought a loaded 9-mm handgun to his Queens elementary school today and sold it to a fellow third-grader for $3, cops said.
The cut-rate arms deal went down at PS 107 on 45th Avenue in Flushing.
After the boy who bought the weapon went home and showed it to his mother, she angrily returned to the school and told an official.
The administrator called 911, and cops identified the student who sold the gun, which had its serial number scratched off, sources said.
The seller’s 54-year-old father, Ignacio Galvan, admitted that he bought the gun, a Taurus semiautomatic, a decade ago for protection, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.
His son faces charges as a juvenile, cops said.
The young buyer thought the weapon was a toy, according to the sources.
What is going on with the school system. Don't they teach kids some basics on the value of things today? Like what it costs to buy car, rent an apartment, buy a gun? Surely the kid knows how to use Google. A quick Internet search would tell you that the going rate for a Taurus 9mm is about $300. Even a used one is worth $100. I'm so bummed out by the school system.
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