It was one hell of a show-and-tell.
An 8-year-old boy was nabbed for bringing a loaded pistol into his Long Island classroom yesterday after his teacher noticed him trying to show it to a classmate, cops said.
Detective Matthew Sullivan described what happened at North Elementary School in Brentwood as a “recipe for disaster.”
“He had it in his desk and he was trying to get the attention of another student to show him what he had,” he said.
But teacher Amanda Kuhlmeier overheard the third-grader whispering to his classmate.
“She heard them talking,” Sullivan said. “She wasn’t sure if she heard the word gum or gun.”
When Kuhlmeier went to investigate, she spotted the 50-year-old .25-caliber semiautomatic and grabbed it from the boy.
“The gun had five live rounds in the clip and no safety catch,” Sullivan said.
The boy was charged with possession of a weapon, taken to Family Court and released to his mother.
Cops are trying to trace the gun’s owner and find out how the boy got it.
