KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO) – Did you or your child receive an Air-soft gun for Christmas? ‘
Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched at 10 a.m. Tuesday to Shirley St. and Proctor in Comstock Township when they a received reports of two-youngsters playing with a hand gun. That deputy quickly determined it was an Air-Soft, and warned the youngsters about the dangers of flashing the toy in public. The Sheriff’s Department is telling all parents to do the same. They say it’s a different world now than it used to be. The authentic looking pellet guns are hard to tell from the real thing, which may make them attractive to their owners, but dangerous if responding police officers don’t know they are packing pellets instead of the real thing. It’s led to shoot-outs, arrests and even deaths like the case in Cleveland. Just this week the officers involved were cleared by a Grand Jury of any wrong doing for shooting Tamir Rice, who had an air-soft pistol.
