Child, 6, fires handgun in Indiana Ikea store after finding it in sofa cushions
Although Ikea has a no-guns policy, Indiana has some of the most pro-gun laws in the United States
Ikea has long been known as a massive one-stop warehouse for everything from assemble-it-yourself bunk beds to artificial potted plants to Swedish meatballs.
On Monday, one child found something a little different at an Ikea store in Fishers, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis: a handgun inside a sofa.
The firearm had apparently fallen into the cushions after its owner sat down on the couch, Sergeant Tom Weger of the Fishers Police Department told The Washington Post.
“He sat down and somehow or another it became dislodged from his body and when he got up he didn’t realise that he was without it,” Weger said.
After “just a few minutes,” a six-year-old child found the gun and fired it at least once into the couch cushions, Weger said. It was then the gun owner noticed his gun was missing.