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Teen spends three days behind bars after cops find him armed with a water gun
(www.independent.co.uk)
To be fair that water gun does indeed look like a real gun.
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I have one just like that, when it came in the mail my first thought was "this never leaves the house" Its a awesome little water pistol though and I use it frequently to wake ~~the~~ my kids.
What mine looks like.
Excellent way to get shot by someone thinking you have a real gun.
Which is why it never leaves the house. At one time I thought to paint the tip orange.
I thought fake guns required an orange tip unless you have a filming license
I mean it is translucent so its not really a fake gun to look real its just not toy like from afar.
To be fair, it’s not illegal to be in possession of a water gun that looks like a real gun.
And somehow that requires more than an arrest, a court date, and being shown the door.
Posession no but "brandishing" is a legitimate charge in a lot of places. Waving a gun around in a public place makes people nervous and if bystanders cant tell the difference then for the purposes of the charge you were brandishing a weapon.
Question is why tho? Is there a need to have toys look like real weapons? Especially when at the same time people also easily get real guns?
You reminded me of this idiocy: a real gun made to look like a toy.
Should be just as illegal.
Why does anything in a movie look real?
Not sure why the DA pushed on this.
I saw another article about this. Apparently, one of the neighbors took a real gun out into his front yard and fired a warning shot into the ground. That guy was not arrested.
The article should have been about that guy's overreaction and him getting arrested for it. But here we are.
nawww the article should be about why the fuck we're marketing a water gun that looks that real to ages three and up
The police response was way out of proportion, a kid should not spend any time in jail for having a toy that looks like a weapon that he is legally allowed to carry, and also that kid is a grade-A dumbass for using a water pistol designed to look like a real pistol. If he points that at someone, and that someone shoots him, that someone would have a valid self-defense case
Aren't they supposed to have orange tips in america?