It was extremely lucky that she was shot in the foot and not somewhere like her head or stomach. Too many kids are being killed by guns adults leave where they can find them. That's serious negligent whether it results in death or injury.

While it does sound very appropriate to make the charge a felony, I am not sure if the parent should lose the rights to the child in all situations involving children and firearms. I don't think it should be a zero tolerance policy. Would all parents charged with felony child neglect lose custody of their children. Would seem to me that they would. Sorry I am not directly answering your question. I would need to know the penalty for felony child neglect. There are definitely situations where neglect involving a firearm should be a felony. Sometimes it should end in a loss of parental rights. Others probably not.

Are cases where a child and gun come together, and the parent/s have been found to be in neglect, always a misdemeanor?

Maybe I am being a Dingbat this morning.

(not parental rights).

Just wondering what other implications come along with a felony child neglect charge. As for the firearm alone, yes, this parent should not be able to legally own a firearm from this day forward. The government has the right to go infringe more in order to protect the weakest among us.

Is this hard for anyone to understand?