Gun Control & RKBA

and said that Crawford was loading a rifle with ammunition, was pointing a gun at children, and was about to commit a robbery or mass shooting. Even though from the 911 transcript synced with the store surveillance video, it is clear the caller knew or should have known that this wasn't true.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/opinion/williams-crawford-walmart-killing/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/25/mass-shooting-hysteria-and-the-death-of-john-crawford/?utm_term=.f14e4882ce3a

Going on the false information provided to them, the police shot him as soon as they rounded a distant corner.

If you look at that surveillance video, the air rifle (not a toy, an actual Crossman MK-177 pellet rifle, .177 caliber) was on the opposite side of Crawford from the officer(s) who shot him (he was holding it by his right side, and they shot him from his left side), so they weren't going off what they saw in any case; they were going off what the 911 caller falsely told them. So even if you passed a law requiring actual pellet rifles to have orange tips as if they were toys, it wouldn't have affected this tragedy, either.