To: mhking
It wasn't a supersoaker. It looked like a 9MM in the photo I saw. I imagine it looked pretty real to the detective that saw it being held to his partner's head in the dimly- lit stairwell. The perp had managed to commit a string of robberies with it, and had been arrested and released from prison a year ago on criminal possession of a weapon charges for a real gun.
22 posted on
01/08/2003 11:46:32 AM PST by
newwahoo
To: newwahoo
The perp had managed to commit a string of robberies with it, and had been arrested and released from prison a year ago on criminal possession of a weapon charges for a real gun.Doesn't matter. The point is that if a perp wants to do the same thing again, he can get a toy gun from elsewhere, or fashion a "gun" out of any number of raw materials from soap to balsa-wood. What are we going to do, ban those materials as well? Please.
23 posted on
01/08/2003 11:50:20 AM PST by
mhking
(Hell, John Dillinger escaped from jail with a "gun" made from soap and shoe polish...)
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