Aero engineering toy gun lockdown

ST. LOUIS - An engineering student in an Aerospace and Mechanical "Engineering Manufacturing Procedures" class did such a good job of creating a toy gun for assignment it prompted a campus-wide lockdown. The Catholic university warned all students to shelter in place for hours on May 3, and evacuated a residence hall after reports of a man with a gun. Police tracked the source of the scare to a toy rubber band gun. The university is asking all of the aerospace engineering students to bring those toy guns, in closed containers, to a university office so they can be destroyed. “It will be the last” time toy guns will be made for class assignments, the university said in a statement. (Source: The Associated Press 05/04/17)