****Arizona is a gun-friendly state. VERY gun-friendly. But if you shoot a BB gun in a public park in Arizona you will be arrested.****
And the article states that he was letting his THREE year old son shoot the pellet gun in a park full of children. Then he let his daughter take the gun and ride with it around the park on her bike while she pointed at other children.
This negligent father should not be our poster boy for protecting the 2nd Amendment.
Says who? Were you there? Was this a metallic BB gun? Or airsoft?
Way to toss him under the bus without any verifiable facts.
Yes.
The article is painfully imprecise. And jail seems WAYover the top. But the father is a lousy candidate for poster boy.
BB guns have killed.
I agree. In light of the reported facts, all the hysterical hyperventilating on this thread is just silly.
Agree. Hubby bought our 6 yr old grandson a Daisy BB Gun for Christmas. We have a ‘shooting range’ set up in our back yard where Hubby is teaching him the rules and how to shoot. That BB Gun is treated with respect by our grandson because it is a prelude to later on teaching him how to shoot real guns.
Have you ever shot an airsoft gun? Like someone else said upthread, getting hit with a rubber band hurts worse.