Lauren Tannehill, wife of Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill, forgot to take an AR-15 out of a rental car in South Florida earlier in January.
It's not a crime, according to police, to accidentally leave a gun behind, although it did give the next family to rent the car a bit of a shock.
The Sun-Sentinel reports:
"We got out of the car, we were kind of freaked out," Judith Fleissig recalls of the moment this month when she and her daughter found the weapon. "I didn’t want to touch it."
Fleissig on Jan. 6 turned over the gun to the closest police station, following the rental company’s recommendation, officials said.
Authorities conducted a review and determined it was legally owned and accidentally left behind.
"Though dangerous if it would have landed in the wrong hands, it’s not criminal," Broward sheriff's spokeswoman Keyla Concepción said. "They simply forgot it."
