The law is wrong to treat this BB gun as a firearm. The judge was wrong to direct the jury to pretend something that was not true. The jury was wrong to listen to the judge. This man should not have been prosecuted.
Don’t you think if you saw this guy walk into your liquor store with this gun that you would feel differently? The kid in Cleveland certainly found out the hard way that a toy gun can very easily cause the same alarm and fear of personal harm as a real gun.
And yet the court disagrees with you
The law in general is a farce.
Glorified dog and pony show.