 A 50-year-old block duck man is charged with one felony count of child endangerment after his 10-year-old son shot himself with a handgun he found in his father's house. David Allen Bjorkness was charged in Beltrami County District Court today with endangerment of child by firearm access. According to the criminal complaint, Bjorkness's son found the loaded handgun and accidentally shot himself in the knee on November 12. The boy was taken to Sanford Babinji Hospital to have the wound stitched, but the boy told an investigator that his dad told him to say he fell on a power tool. The boy's mother took him back to the emergency room on November 14 because of swelling in the boy's leg and that is when an X-ray found the .22 caliber bullet. An investigator from the Beltrami County Sheriff's Department spoke with Bjorkness who admitted knowing the injury was from a gunshot. Authorities executed a search warrant and found a revolver and six long guns. Several of the guns were loaded and would have been within easy reach of a 10-year-old. Bjorkness is being held in the Beltrami County Jail. Endangerment of child by firearm access is punishable by five years in prison, a $10,000 fine or both.