The Pocono Record published a story about a man in an East Stroudsburg Walmart parking lot who fired at least twice at Stroud Area Regional Police officers who had come to arrest him. No one fired back.
He was firing an “airsoft gun” with plastic and nonlethal bullets. An officer close enough to the shooter heard the sound of the gun’s CO2 cartridge and radioed immediately to other officers that the gun was not real.
The Pocono Record had a photo on the front page of three guns and asked readers to pick out the two fakes. To me they all looked real.
Here is one of those problems that confounds me. Why can’t legislatures require air guns or pellet guns to be bright orange or be given some other distinguishing mark? Surely this wouldn’t violate the Second Amendment. Why is this country no longer solve even simple problems?
(The story and picture appeared on Nov. 17.)
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