Student faces charges for homemade gun on Katy campus The weapon that prompted the evacuation at the school in the 9200 block of South Fry turned out to be a homemade firearm known as a zip gun, a weapon that can be as crude as a pipe with a block of wood for a handle and a rubber band providing the power for a firing pin. A school staffer was told about a "security threat" - which led to a campus-wide evacuation - after a regularly scheduled fire ...
Jan. 14, 2014 - Houston Chronicle