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[–]TruthTeller 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (22 children)

If anything they should be charged with gross incompetence for the way they were handling their weapons.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (20 children)

The way the wife was limp-wrist waving around that gun with her finger on the trigger was one of the cringiest and stupidest things I've ever seen.

[–]Yayme 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

It wasn't a real gun. And she doesn't know shit about guns, they already said that.

The inoperable pistol was taken by police while the AR-15 rifle that Mark McCloskey was holding, was reportedly seized by police on July 10, 2020 at the home

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/st-louis-couple-pointed-guns-protesters-charged/63-be631d76-b3fc-4180-9d69-612b79bbc91d

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

I see, how was anyone else supposed to know this?

[–]Yayme 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Um, read it? Just like I did?

Or do you mean the people rioting? They weren't supposed to know. That was the whole point. It's called a bluff.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Sorry yeah the protestors and the police. It only makes sense that they were arrested for "flourishing a gun" if by all looks and appearances you have someone with a loaded gun and no gun training pointing it at people.

[–]Yayme 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

They've told the police. That's why the whole felony weapons charge probably won't stick either, and it's probably a bluff too. The weapon has to be lethal for it to be a felony charge, I believe.

Which is why the keep reporting that his was unloaded and there was no ammo in the house.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

is it a felony to point a fake gun at people tho.

[–]Yayme 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 571.030. — Unlawful use of weapons--exceptions--penalties. 571.030. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he or she knowingly:

(1) Carries concealed upon or about his or her person a knife, a firearm, a blackjack or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use; or

(2) Sets a spring gun; or

(3) Discharges or shoots a firearm into a dwelling house, a railroad train, boat, aircraft, or motor vehicle as defined in section 302.010, RSMo, or any building or structure used for the assembling of people; or

(4) Exhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner; or

(5) Possesses or discharges a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated; or

(6) Discharges a firearm within one hundred yards of any occupied schoolhouse, courthouse, or church building; or

(7) Discharges or shoots a firearm at a mark, at any object, or at random, on, along or across a public highway or discharges or shoots a firearm into any outbuilding; or

(8) Carries a firearm or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use into any church or place where people have assembled for worship, or into any election precinct on any election day, or into any building owned or occupied by any agency of the federal government, state government, or political subdivision thereof; or

(9) Discharges or shoots a firearm at or from a motor vehicle, as defined in section 301.010, RSMo, discharges or shoots a firearm at any person, or at any other motor vehicle, or at any building or habitable structure, unless the person was lawfully acting in self-defense; or

(10) Carries a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use into any school, onto any school bus, or onto the premises of any function or activity sponsored or sanctioned by school officials or the district school board.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

But you didn't answer the question. All you did was copy and paste one statute that is irrelevant to whether or not threatening someone with a fake gun is a felony. Try again:

is it a felony to point a fake gun at people tho.

[–]TruthTeller 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ahhahah! HAhah! I died when I saw that. That's what you get in an insane gun culture where anyone can buy any amounts of guns and ammo. You get every asshole in the book walking around ready to shoot themselves. When I saw her with that gun I became certain that is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suppose it was technically illegal, now was it a felony. And it's not fair since none of those looters were arrested for breaking into that comunity. Those people specifically moved to a gated community because they knew a ghetto is really not that far in St Louis. It is white flight yes but they wanted to stay away from the criminals not kill them.

[–]horatioherbert 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You should be free to point your weapon at someone(s) threatening your life and property