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Post subject: BB gun games  Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:48 am |
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This is a crime now? My dad and his brothers have a ton of stories of backyard bb gun fights. My grandma use to send them out back to have bb gun wars to get them out of the house. Now its a crime?!?
Quote: Massachusetts Boy, 8, Charged With Shooting Friendstory linkMonday, March 16, 2009 BROCKTON, Mass. — An 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts has been charged with shooting an 11-year-old friend in the head with a pellet gun, police said. Brockton police Lt. Tom LaFratta told The Enterprise newspaper that the younger boy, whose name was not released because of his age, will be summonsed to juvenile court to face charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a pellet gun. Police said the gun belonged to the younger boy's father. The boy shot the older boy in the back of the head as they played last Thursday. The older boy's family say he was taken to a hospital where doctors removed pellet fragments from his scalp and closed the wound with nine staples. The younger boy's father sent a written apology to the older boy's family.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:53 pm |
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Shot with a pellet and they closed the wound with NINE staples....something isn't adding up.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:53 am |
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Nine staples ? That was some pellet !
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:37 am |
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graze wound? Boy meant to pierce other boy's ear. 
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:38 am |
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He must have skipped it off the skull and opened a long furrow or something along those lines.
Stupid move? You bet. Criminal? Not hardly.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:24 pm |
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1200 fps with a 6 grain .177 pellet can make a nasty wound.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:02 pm |
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Traveler wrote: 1200 fps with a 6 grain .177 pellet can make a nasty wound. wow, that sure beats my Red Rider at 350 fps! 
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:03 pm |
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i have to raise this question why on earth would you give an 8 yo kid something like a gamo air rifle to play with, inparticularly if you had not taught him propper gun handling, i mean as a kid we played bb gun games, but we were smart enough to use those week crossman black dart pistols, the ones you had to pull the slide back then push it forward, you could load one dart or pellet at a time or 7 bb's
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:05 pm |
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nearly every thing is criminal now, it does not matter, it is all this zero tollerance, good for some things, yes, good for all deffinately not
mrokern wrote: He must have skipped it off the skull and opened a long furrow or something along those lines.
Stupid move? You bet. Criminal? Not hardly.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:31 pm |
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A friend on another board posted the following link:
http://www.templar.com/games/dontshootyoureyeout/
have fun 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:13 am |
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I just wasted 15 minutes on that site!  Cool...
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:07 am |
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One of the towns I grew up in. I was a paper boy for the reporting paper from age eight to eleven. I am surprised DCPS allowed the boy to stay with his family.
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:17 pm |
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There is no way that I believe the injury required 9 STAPLES! MAYBE, 9 stitches and that might be a stretch. It would have to be a pretty severe and long wound to require that many staples. The last surgery I had (going on about 14-15...) where they used staples they put them about 1/2 inch a part. Given my past experience with stitches and staples I can't believe they used that many staples.
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