Things like this make Gun owners look bad...

[Frenchy]

Stupid kid walks around with an airsoft bb gun and gets arrested, still makes the gun owners look bad, Now if this kid had some education with firearms, he would of known better then to do this...


Gun waver cited

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Pittsburgh police over the weekend cited a man in Lawrenceville after witnesses said he caused a scene near a Wendy's restaurant by waving around a pistol that turned out to be an Airsoft-style pellet gun that looks like the real thing.
Police cited Andrew Scott Zevola, 19, on Saturday after finding him in the Wendy's parking lot at 40th and Butler streets with the gun in his pocket.
A University of Pittsburgh police officer and a man selling flowers on 40th Street both said Mr. Zevola was "waving a firearm around and causing alarm to the public," police said.
Police said the incident drew a crowd to the scene. Mr. Zevola was cited for disorderly conduct and violating a city ordinance against carrying a facsimile of a gun.
Last week a 10-year-old Georgia boy was shot in the face with one while ice-skating at PPG Plaza, and police received at least two other reports that day of similar shootings. Airsoft guns and their competitors are designed to look like real firearms, but they fire plastic BBs that sting.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07003/750892-53.stm

[00gt1]

thats a damn shame, whats the world coming to

[Willtallica]

I don't even like taking my gun stocks outside.

[ChamberedRound]

Dumb kid looking for attention. Well, he got it, to the detriment of us all no doubt.

One thing I noticed in reading the article was that he was cited for "carrying a facsimile of a gun"? That's a law in Pittsburgh? Does that mean that a child, or the parent of a child, can get cited for a water pistol or a cap gun?

I went thought so many cap guns and caps when I was a kid. The good old days...

[LittleRedToyota]

dang...i live two blocks from there. hadn't heard anything about it.

i dunno about the city gun facsimilie law. i can tell you i see neighborhood kids out playing with squirt guns a lot in the summer (some of which look pretty real). the police don't seem to bother them.

(btw, the kid was prolly just driven to insanity by that particular wendy's definition of "fast" food. i don't think it has ever taken me less than 20 minutes to go through the drive through there. )

[KeithPA]

Originally Posted by Frenchy

Stupid kid walks around with an airsoft bb gun and gets arrested, still makes the gun owners look bad, Now if this kid had some education with firearms, he would of known better then to do this...


Gun waver cited

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Pittsburgh police over the weekend cited a man in Lawrenceville after witnesses said he caused a scene near a Wendy's restaurant by waving around a pistol that turned out to be an Airsoft-style pellet gun that looks like the real thing.
Police cited Andrew Scott Zevola, 19, on Saturday after finding him in the Wendy's parking lot at 40th and Butler streets with the gun in his pocket.
A University of Pittsburgh police officer and a man selling flowers on 40th Street both said Mr. Zevola was "waving a firearm around and causing alarm to the public," police said.
Police said the incident drew a crowd to the scene. Mr. Zevola was cited for disorderly conduct and violating a city ordinance against carrying a facsimile of a gun.
Last week a 10-year-old Georgia boy was shot in the face with one while ice-skating at PPG Plaza, and police received at least two other reports that day of similar shootings. Airsoft guns and their competitors are designed to look like real firearms, but they fire plastic BBs that sting.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07003/750892-53.stm

Rent-a-cop calls in the real cops to arrest him??? I thought Pitt cops were real?

Kid is a dumbass....nuff said