Her 14-year old son is accused of threatening his western Pennsylvania high school last month. And now the mother is facing a felony for allegedly giving him the guns and ammo that he could have used to carry out his threats.

As for why Uniontown mother Lenora Hendrix would have allowed her 14-year-old son to have a stockpile of weapons in his bedroom?

State police said Tuesday that Hendrix told them she let her son keep guns in his room to teach him responsibility and "let him grow up."

All this according to WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, which reports Hendrix turned herself in to face a single felony charge for possession of a firearm by a minor in the case.

Authorities say a much bigger tragedy was averted when another Uniontown High School student reported the boy's threats and police followed up, searching the boy's room and finding multiple guns, weapons and ammo in his bedroom.

"It very well could've been a disaster if it wasn't for a classmate or another student who had the sense enough to talk to her parents about what she heard ... they're the heroes - it's not us," Trooper Robert Broadwater told WPXI.

In all, police found five guns, bulk ammunition and knives in the boy's Fayette County bedroom.

The mother facing a felony charge for the guns held by her son was released on $20,000 unsecured bond.

Her defense attorney, Shane Gannon, told WPXI Hendrix is going through a "difficult process."

"Lenora is a good person, good mother, she has no record, not even a traffic ticket," he said. "This is all foreign to her. You know, she's concerned for her son, concerned for herself but foremost her son."

She faces a preliminary hearing March 9.