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Water pistol seized as man arrested over alleged shooting of replica gun near NSW parliament (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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lmfao the language "discharged a replica firearm" certainly sounds scarier than squirted a waterpistol at the ground.

Given rideshare driver (is this relevant?) this smacks of driving while black type discrimination.

Obviously the toy looks a bit real, but it seems to me all this needed was "hey we had a complaint, that looked real, why not hand it over and go home for a bit?" Although even so Queensland allows very realistic toy guns and AFAIK it's not some lawless hellscape of fake holdups.

BTW bonus fact. A spud gun, like fires a fragment of potato via a spring, is almost certainly an illegal firearm in nsw. Heaps cool.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I assume some wowser panicked and called the cops on the scary brown man with a gun. I shoot 22s, am not exactly a gun nut but am also astounded at general fear and ignorance of firearms in city dwellers despite their actual massive presence there.

Like fair cop OK, he's an idiot for bringing it out in public but nothing indicates he was trying to scare people or do anything nefarious. Hang me for this if you like but I reckon we should be a bit forgiving of people doing silly things if alls well and they understand that the forgiveness is conditional on doing better going forwards.