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.
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.
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...