{"id":175214,"date":"2026-04-24T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:47:08","slug":"2-students-brought-bb-guns-to-bensalem-school-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175214\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Students Brought BB Guns To Bensalem School: PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Police are commending a student and staffer who took quick action to find another student with a suspected firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police said on Friday Shafer Middle School were made aware by a student that a male student was carrying a firearm in his waistband. <\/p>\n<p> The student spotted the firearm when he lifted up his shirt, police said.<\/p>\n<p> The School Resource Officer and additional police personnel were immediately notified and responded. T<\/p>\n<p>The student was located by a school administrator, who was able to safely remove the weapon, which was determined to be a BB gun. <\/p>\n<p>Police found that there was also a second student who also brought a BB gun to school.<\/p>\n<p>The Shafer school administration will be handling internal discipline for both students. <\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>No information will be released regarding the identity of the students. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1586961-1777061745\" data-image=\"1586961-1777061745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gun.jpg\" data- \/><\/p>\n<p>(Bensalem Township Police Department)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Police are commending a student and staffer who took quick action to find another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-175214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}