Man fatally shot by police after carrying rifle near several Toronto schools, police say

[Robert Mugabe]

Witnesses interviewed by CP24 said they heard "show your hands", "drop the weapon". No, cops did not ask if that is a toy/pellet gun.

(Maybe the man was deaf and couldn't hear the officers and/or he didn't understand English.)

All the more reason not to be walking around near a school with a pellet gun. Get a hearing aid or learn the language. One of the few things | agree with the police on. Absolutely no sense of humor when it comes to guns. Fake or otherwise.

 

[Gntlmn1]

Let's not be so dismissive of "pellet gun". Pellet guns come in various configurations and most are either .177 or .22 caliber. If the muzzle velocity is 495 ft/sec or slower it does not require an FAC/PAL. Those are the ones most people are familiar with. I have two pellet rifles that I use for competition and rodent control - one in .22 cal that has a muzzle velocity of 880 ft/sec and a .177 cal that has a muzzle velocity of 1396 ft/sec. They are both considered very "real" firearms subject to all the rules of real firearms and easily have the potential to kill human beings. There are a large number of these type of pellet rifles around and police are well aware of these rifles and the danger they pose.

 

[tastingyou]

All the more reason not to be walking around near a school with a pellet gun. Get a hearing aid or learn the language. One of the few things | agree with the police on. Absolutely no sense of humor when it comes to guns. Fake or otherwise.

Whether the gun was real or fake should be completely irrelevant to the discussion or the investigation. It looked real is enough to close that discussion.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Let's not be so dismissive of "pellet gun". Pellet guns come in various configurations and most are either .177 or .22 caliber. If the muzzle velocity is 495 ft/sec or slower it does not require an FAC/PAL. Those are the ones most people are familiar with. I have two pellet rifles that I use for competition and rodent control - one in .22 cal that has a muzzle velocity of 880 ft/sec and a .177 cal that has a muzzle velocity of 1396 ft/sec. They are both considered very "real" firearms subject to all the rules of real firearms and easily have the potential to kill human beings. There are a large number of these type of pellet rifles around and police are well aware of these rifles and the danger they pose.

During the 1600s people started hunting large game animals such as deer and wild boar with big-bore air rifles ranging from.30 caliber up to and including a.51 caliber rifle. These large caliber airguns were charged using a hand pump to fill an air chamber and produced velocities ranging from 650 to 1,000 FPS (200–300 m/s).

 

[Ghbff]

Here's the answer. Not a peep from BLM.

The white fragility is strong with you bro. Makes it easy for the far right to control the way you think and feel. The sooner you realize that the sooner you can stop being such a sheep.

 

[black booty lover]

The anti-police mob will be out in force protesting.

The "rifle" was a BB gun.

Once they find out his name, it will be "justice for xxxxx"

 

[Darts]

Two pellet gun attacks in the past 24 hours here in Toronto.
Teens charged in 2 separate pellet gun shootings at Toronto schools | CBC News

 

[AndrewX]

Two pellet gun attacks in the past 24 hours here in Toronto.
Teens charged in 2 separate pellet gun shootings at Toronto schools | CBC News

Lucky they didn't get shot. We still haven't heard nothing about the guy that got killed ?