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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Wed Aug 26, 2015, 07:50 AM Aug 2015

Idiot Who Fired Pellet Gun At De Blasio's Cop Says It Went Off Accidentally

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by krispos42 (a host of the Gun Control & RKBA group).

A 19-year-old Manhattan resident was arrested for allegedly firing an air gun at a member of Mayor de Blasio's security detail on Sunday night. Prosecutors say that Michael Verbitsky confessed—but insisted that it was all an accident.

Police say that around 7:15 p.m. on August 24th, a police officer near Gracie Mansion was "struck in the back by an apparent BB/pellet," adding, "There have been two previous reports of apparent BB/ pellets causing damage to windows in this same area."

According to the Post, "Hearing a pop, the cops looked up, noticing a pair of moving curtains and a silhouette in an open window, the sources said," across the street at luxury condo 170 East End Avenue.

http://gothamist.com/2015/08/25/pellet_gun_oopsies.php

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Idiot Who Fired Pellet Gun At De Blasio's Cop Says It Went Off Accidentally (Original Post) SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP

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those right wing gunnuts... ileus Aug 2015 #2

Documenting another gun control failure for the crowd. DonP Aug 2015 #3

This is anfirearms group, not a group about fishing. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #4

Locking krispos42 Aug 2015 #5

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ileus

(15,396 posts)

2. those right wing gunnuts...

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 08:26 AM

Aug 2015

DonP

(6,185 posts)

3. Documenting another gun control failure for the crowd.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 09:00 AM

Aug 2015

With all their tight control laws, they can't even keep a stupid pellet gun out of the hands of a "criminal".

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

4. This is anfirearms group, not a group about fishing.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 01:53 PM

Aug 2015

krispos42

(49,445 posts)

5. Locking

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Aug 26, 2015, 01:57 PM

Aug 2015

Airguns are not firearms, nor are they generally accepted to be weapons. This doesn't meet the SoP of the Group.

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Krispos42, Group Host

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