The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office in New Mexico released the video showing officers disarming two young children - aged 7 and 9 - holding a loaded firearm in Albuquerque on February 16.

Police in New Mexico are talking about a scary confrontation with two young children handling a loaded gun back in February. Elise Preston shows how drone video was crucial to helping deputies at the ...

Sheriff blames a "system of failure" that led his deputies into a situation where they had to square off against two boys, aged 7 and 9, with a loaded gun at a home they'd been called to more than 50 ...

The sheriff in New Mexico’s most populous county is crediting his department’s drone program for helping disarm two children ...

Recently released drone footage captured two boys, aged seven and nine, armed with a loaded firearm during a standoff with ...

The video, released by the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office, shows the boys recklessly handling the weapon and pointing it at both the officers and each other.

Drone video shows police disarm two New Mexico boys, 5 and 7, playing with a handgun. Cops thanked technology for averting a ...

The 7-year-old and 9-year-old boys took turns handling the firearm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before one of them later ...

The incident of the armed boys in a standoff with deputies came amid the increasing reports of incidents with juvenile ...

The children had been taught how to use the weapon and were known to the deputies, who had been called to their home over 50 ...