Dont know enough about the other stories to comment on them but this one I do. This one did not play out that way. The crossman gun in question is not a orange tipped air powered nerf gun you can just grab off a shelf. Yes its air powered but its not a toy. It is a hunting an sport rifle that can be very deadly. It looks even deadlier than it is. I have a similar model crossman that I keep beside my real AR-15 an very few people can tell the two apart. For that reason they are not sold open on a shelf. It is packed in a box that is very hard to get it out of an very good at hiding that it is a gun. Even if we assume he did as little wrong as possible we still have a man walking threw walmart with an AR platform openly displayed in his hand. Something everyone knows better than.And just recently a young father was shot in a WalMart. He was carrying an air gun which he had picked up off the shelf and was intending to buy in one hand, and talking on a cell phone which he was holding in the other hand. Since he was talking on the phone he probably didn't hear the officer telling him to drop the gun. He won't make that mistake again. He's dead. I don't know if these incidents are getting more common or if we are just hearing more about them now.
I have a gun on my hip every time I walk in to a walmart. I also have one of these Crossman guns in my gun rack in the parking lot. Seeing guns in public does not bother me but I cant say I would not have shot that man. Carrying around an AR platform gun in hand inside a walmart store is so far outside of what you would expect a sane man to do that I cant fault anyone who thought he was crazy. I really think this was a suicide. Its the only way I can see an adult being willing to do the steps he had to do to end up where he did.
This is what he should have had in his hand...
But he opened it..
An this is what people were seeing walking around walmart...
Here is a picture of one of my two ARs in my gun rack.
I will let you guess if its my Smith an Wesson or my Crossman but I will tell you that it takes me a minute to figure it out an they are my guns.
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