Investigation follows firearms find in school
A POLICE investigation has been launched after a cache of replica firearms was found inside a Glasgow school.
Police are understood to have been alerted to the discovery by a concerned teacher at Blairtummock Primary in Easterhouse.
Teacher and pupils were evacuated amid fears that the weapons were real.
A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said: "A number of weapons were discovered in a cupboard in the school by a member of staff.
"They were examined and have been found to be replicas."
Parents were divided on who to blame, with the education board, school and police all facing their ire.
Louise Sinclair, 27, who has three children at the school, said: "I do not think it was handled very well."
Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, said he will continue to press Westminster for tougher gun laws.
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