It is illegal for a 13 year old to purchase, brandish or carry in public a replica gun.
The protesters, including middle- and high-school-age students and members of the Occupy movement, assembled in downtown Santa Rosa before marching through streets with signs and hooded sweatshirts bearing photos of the boy.
That’s easy — the one on the left is the toy with the grey metal end and you can see that the end of the rifle that included the orange tip had been cut off.
Surely the police know that kids all over California cut off those tips or are they all willingly ignorant just so they can shoot kids carrying them???
Really? That sounds like an incredibly subjective law. And a stupid one at that.