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10-year-old Wash. boy defends mom with BB gun
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 22, 2011

Posted on 11/22/2011 5:08:33 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - Police in Bellingham, Wash., say a 10-year-old boy defended his mother from an attacker by shooting him in the face with a BB rifle as many as four times.

The man accused of the attack rents a room in the woman's home and came home drunk and angry Tuesday morning. Police say he kicked in a bedroom door and started choking the woman.

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To: yarddog

“I will say I have also seen or read about some real tragedies involving kids and air guns. Quite a few serious and fatal injuries to truly innocent children.”

One could say the same about cars and teenagers...


61 posted on 11/22/2011 8:57:18 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
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To: yarddog
I remember all those GM cars from the 1980s which used gas pistons instead of springs

They've improved a bit in the last 25 years.

62 posted on 11/22/2011 9:46:20 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: yarddog
I remember all those GM cars from the 1980s which used gas pistons instead of springs

They've improved a bit in the last 25 years.

63 posted on 11/22/2011 9:46:36 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

This will be entered into the national database, so when he tries to buy a firearm as an adult, he will be rejected because of a previous assault involving a gun.


64 posted on 11/22/2011 9:59:43 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Actually, Washington Stat is pretty conservative when it comes to gun laws. Legal for a kid to have a pellet gun. Legal to shoot someone to stop them from committing a felony OR to prevent bodily harm. That’s anywhere you might be.

Plus the Castle Doctrine and she was in her room. I hope the kid gets a .22 or larger by the time (6 months?) the scumbag gets out of jail.


65 posted on 11/22/2011 10:00:53 PM PST by 21twelve ("We can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust....and another lost generation.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

BTTT!


66 posted on 11/22/2011 11:32:43 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: yarddog
I don't think so, max velocity from the Blue Streak was 675 fps. Even cheapest of the single stroke springers have velocities of around 1,000 fps.
67 posted on 11/23/2011 10:56:25 AM PST by Sea Parrot (%)
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To: Sea Parrot

675fps is about right for the Sheriden. I don’t recall the pellet weight off hand but it was heavy for it’s caliber which really makes all the difference in penetration.

For that matter 675fps is about the velocity of the .38 S&W cartridge. It would penetrate a lot more than one board.

I have 5 .177 springers right now which are rated at 1000fps. I don’t have a chrony but have read enough reports by owners who do that most of them are no where near 1000fps except with the very lightest of regular pellets. Even then most are well under 1000fps. I do have one, a Turkish made one which I think is a bit hotter than the others.

I have actually owned and shot a Sheriden for many years. They really are powerful.


68 posted on 11/23/2011 11:27:40 AM PST by yarddog
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To: yarddog

IIRC, the .38 S&W cartridge uses bullets heavy as 200 grains.


69 posted on 11/23/2011 10:45:08 PM PST by Sea Parrot (%)
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