Why is this table not finding this item?

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So I have a for loop iterating through numItems and I’m searching a table to see if a gladius (the target from mouse) is inside the items table, but for some reason this isn’t evaluating as true and proceeding with the code even though the item IS in the table.

--This script's job is going to be making what happens when the player walks up to any item in the game
--that the player can pick up. Shields, Swords, Helmets, Wood, Ores, NPCs, interactable objects, etc.
--The interaction insignia will be updated every frame to the mouse position on the screen, and we'll
--make it visible if the player's mouse is hovering over an item that can be interacted with

local UserInputService = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local RunService = game:GetService('RunService')

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local playerMouse = Player:GetMouse()
local interaction = script.Parent:WaitForChild('InteractionInsignia')

local PickupItemRemote = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild('PickupItem')
local ItemName = interaction.ItemName

local Items = {} --this is gonna be a table updated on runservice checking the environment assets folder in a forinpairs loop, inserting any child which is not already apart of the table into the table
local EnvironmentAssets = game.Workspace.EnvironmentAssets:GetChildren()

local insideInteraction = false;
--We're going to display the mouse's visibility based on if the player's mouse is on a specific item in game
--if the player's mouse's hit's position's target's name belongs to an index of the Items table, make
--visible the interaction insignia

playerMouse.Move:Connect(function()
	interaction.Position = UDim2.new(0,playerMouse.X,0,playerMouse.Y)
end)

function toggleInteraction(target)
	warn('hohohohohhohohoho');
	print(target)

	for i=1, #Items do
		if table.find(Items, target.Parent) or table.find(Items, target) then
			warn("Hey boy")
			interaction.Visible = true
			ItemName.Text = target.Parent.Name
		else
			interaction.Visible = false
		end
	end
end

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
		local target = ''
		target = playerMouse.Target or playerMouse.Target.Parent
		if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E and table.find(Items, target.Parent) or target.Name == 'Sheathe' or target.Name == 'SheathAccents' or target.Name == 'Hilt' then
			PickupItemRemote:FireServer(target)
		end
	end
end)

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function(dt)
	--Putting items in table
	for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace.EnvironmentAssets:GetChildren()) do
		if not table.find(Items, v) then
			table.insert(Items, v)
		end
	end
	
	if playerMouse.Target and Player.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.InventoryWindow.Visible == false then
		local target = ''
		target = playerMouse.Target or playerMouse.Target.Parent
		print(Items)
		print(target)
		print(target.Parent)
		toggleInteraction(target)
	end
end)

--now we need to make it so that when the player has a target and if they press e then it will destroy the part
--and put it into their inventory.

Why?

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