Columbia County Sheriff’s Office investigates reports of people being shot by BB guns

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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla. – The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said it has been investigating cases of respective radical being changeable oregon changeable astatine with either a BB, pellet, oregon an Airsoft gun.

And present authorities are informing parents to decently amended their children connected however to usage of those guns.

Airsoft guns that sprout integrative balls are toys for people signifier oregon shooting competitions betwixt groups of radical who deterioration protective cogwheel portion shooting astatine each different successful an arena. Airsoft Barracks manager Dennis Hejduk said these toys which look similar existent guns were not meant to beryllium pulled connected radical oregon changeable astatine radical successful the street.

“These tin deed an oculus and harm it permanently. This tin interruption your teeth. So, if they are shooting these astatine random radical walking down the street, it tin decidedly origin immoderate damage,” Hejduk said.

BB and pellet guns that sprout metallic balls tin origin adjacent much damage.

“Even the small pellet guns, those are utilized to termination tiny game. Little birds, rabbits. Stuff similar that if you deed idiosyncratic successful the neck, it could truly bash immoderate damage. You shouldn’t person those retired successful nationalist shooting people,” Hejduk said.

Unfortunately, this is what has been happening successful Columbia County which is wherefore the sheriff’s bureau issued this nationalist work announcement connected its Facebook page.

“We don’t cognize if this is immoderate benignant of societal media situation oregon radical who had the aforesaid atrocious idea,” the sheriff’s bureau wrote.

Bad thought due to the fact that not lone tin these toys injure someone, they tin besides scare idiosyncratic into fearing for their life.

“If idiosyncratic who is lawfully equipped for self-defense and spot a weapon pointed astatine them, they whitethorn propulsion their ain limb and effort to support themselves,” the sheriff’s bureau wrote.

Adam Deputy is the begetter of a 7-year-old who competes successful Airsoft competitions. He said this is the speech helium had with his lad connected time one.

“You person to marque definite they person the knowing that this is simply a existent weapon and this is simply a fae gun, but different radical don’t cognize that so, you person to beryllium careful,” Deputy said.

Pointing an Airsoft oregon BB weapon astatine random radical connected the thoroughfare tin besides onshore you successful jailhouse if caught.