Yes.
The article is painfully imprecise. And jail seems WAYover the top. But the father is a lousy candidate for poster boy.
BB guns have killed.
“And jail seems WAY over the top.”
Just looking at the law, and air soft guns (and BB guns) are illegal in NYC. In New Jersey I was reading where an airsoft or BB gun pistol needs to be registered as a real pistol, and the penalties for having an illegal “pistol” are the same for airsoft, bb, or regular firearm! (3 to 5 years prison).