Posted on 05/18/2022 4:27:16 AM PDT by marktwain
At about 9 p.m. on May 4th, in the 5700 block of Azalia Street, a 17 year old teenager was shot, as reported by Pinal Central. From pinalcentral.com:
CASA GRANDE — The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Wednesday night shooting that is being described as an attempted homicide near Casa Grande.
At approximately 9 p.m. PCSO received a call regarding a 17-year-old boy who had been shot in the 5700 block of Azalia Street, a neighborhood off Pinal Avenue that is unincorporated, following an argument.
The victim was transported to a hospital, where he underwent surgery and is expected to survive.
Details of what happened were not clear. Casa Grande is in Arizona, close to the junction of Interstate 8 and 10, between Yuma and Tucson, on I-8. It is between Phoenix and Tucson on I-10.
Azalia street is a set of modest homes in an unincorporated area, so it falls under the jurisdiction of the Pinal County Sheriff.
Jeremy Beren of Newsbreak broke the story. A 10-year-old had used an airgun in self defense. This correspondent contacted the Pinal County Sheriff’s office and received confirmation from Lauren Reimer, Public Information Officer. From the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office:
On 5/4 around 9pm, PCSO received a call regarding a 17-year-old male who had been shot after an argument. The victim was transported to the hospital where he underwent surgery and is expected to survive.
Detectives were able to determine a 10-year-old child shot the 17-year-old in an act of self-defense using a high velocity pellet gun. Potential charges for the 17 year old are under review.
Children using firearms for self-defense make the news now and then. This is the first time this correspondent has read of a 10 year-old using a pellet gun with sufficient effect
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Air rifles today. You can buy a fully automatic .30 caliber air rifle with about a 1000 fps velocity and in many states can be legally used to hunt deer and other game.
I would be interested to know that.
I have a nice single pump gun that fires .177 pellets at 1400 fps (faster, but less mass than a .22 lr). I used it to replace my squirrel gun. I’d imagine it could put a hurt on a person.
Do not mess with our 10YO, they are packing just like the rest of us.
There are some air guns that are 70 and 50 cal. One home defense pistol is 50 cal.
One of my friends has a .51 cal air rifle he hunts pigs with. Single shot, 4500 psi, with about 800+ ftlbs of knock down thump.
This is obviously not what the 10 year old had, but just run up to Walmart and see some of the .22 caliber break action guns they have now, they aren’t your old Crossman 760 by a long shot. (no pun intended)
Those things can put a serious hurt to someone.
Dennis Quackenbush of Urbana, MO. (who ironically is no relation to the Henry Quackenbush of New York who made airguns in the late 19th & early 20th Century) sells hand-made, pre-charged pneumatic air rifles up to .50-caliber that have been used to take game as large and formidable as black bear and African plains animals.
http://www.quackenbushairguns.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackenbush_rifle
I also have been places where firearm ownership was tightly controlled but common folk were allowed to keep (PCP & rubber-band powered) spear guns for home defense and personal protection.
It makes you wonder what the 17-Year-Old was doing, to make it an obvious case of self defense.
I would not want to take a raptor pellet from my
Gamo varminter. It has a .22 velocity.
A pellet gun is not an air gun.
Please enlighten us with other possibilities.
Before WWI, the Austrian Army was carrying large caliber airguns in battle.
A pellet gun is not an air gun.
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Perhaps technically speaking this is correct. An air gun much like an Air-Soft gun usually shoots a plastic ball. While it is potentially dangerous the speed and weight of the projectile is slow and light enough that it would only cause damage to a person hit squarely in the eye.
A Pellet gun also uses air to project the projectile but the projectile is usually a pellet or round ball made of lead in a wide range of sizes from .177 to over 50 Cal. The projectile speed at discharge of a pellet gun can be more than the speed of many gunpowder guns. This speed and weight combination can be harmful or even fatal to humans. These guns, the heavier caliper versions anyway are often used as varmint control weapons.
All this being said, in the current status of the English language many people would easily believe that an air gun and pellet gun are the same thing.
I just know I had an Air gun and no projectiles came out of it.
You can skip a pellet across a pond.
Look for the dims to be closing the “airgun” loophole shortly. How DARE a 10yo have access to a weapon that can do bodily harm...
: Air gun means any gun that discharges a pellet, BB, or paintball by means of compressed air, gas propellant, or a spring.
Napoleon hated them and he declared that any enemy soldier caught with one was to be executed like a spy, and not treated as an enemy combatant.
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