{"id":32451,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1969-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/man-arrested-persecuted-for-toy-gun-in-new-york\/32451\/"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1969-12-31T23:00:00","slug":"man-arrested-persecuted-for-toy-gun-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/man-arrested-persecuted-for-toy-gun-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested, Persecuted For Toy Gun in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Outraged New Yorkers, government bring wrath of the law down on father <\/p>\n<p><strong>Kurt Nimmo<\/strong><br \/>Infowars.com<br \/>May 10, 2013<br \/><!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p>The hysterical response of New Yorkers to anything remotely resembling a firearm resulted in a man\u2019s arrest earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>Jack Pawlowski was playing with his son when he was confronted by people outraged by his toy gun. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first I thought I was hallucinating,\u201d Maria Smilios of Astoria told <a target=_blank  href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2013\/05\/08\/exclusive-man-arrested-for-allegedly-shooting-realistic-toy-gun-with-kids-in-queens-park\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>. \u201cHe pulled out this gun\u2026 The next thing, he took his son, who is 3, and showed him how to use it, and then the family took turns shooting the gun. He gave it to his daughter, who took off on the bicycle and started racing around the park with the gun pointing this way and just started pointing it at the kids,\u201d a stunned Smilios said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t tend to take things lying down, so I went past the parents, and so I walked straight over and I confronted him,\u201d said Leni Calas. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s brandishing a firearm and I don\u2019t care if that firearm is plastic. That\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s \u201csee something, say something\u201d rule, Calas immediately called the cops. She also called her local city councilman and posted a cell phone photo of Pawlowski on her website in an attempt to publicly humiliate him for the crime of playing with a toy gun. <\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski was led off in handcuffs as the news media gathered around to record his arrest. He was charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a minor, resisting arrest, and possession of an illegal BB gun.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, <a target=_blank  href=\"http:\/\/injury.findlaw.com\/product-liability\/airsoft-guns.html\" target=\"_blank\">BB guns are outlawed<\/a> in New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, and other parts of the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a way to educate people,\u201d declared councilman Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat. You cannot run around with a realistic looking gun. It\u2019s against the law, and you could get arrested and actually go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident reveals the effectiveness of decades of non-stop anti-gun propaganda. New York\u2019s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is one of America\u2019s leading enemies of the Second Amendment. New York has the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the government passed the NY SAFE Act, which will, of course, make millions of New Yorkers less safe. Bloomberg and officialdom have  <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/man-arrested-persecuted-for-toy-gun-in-new-york\/  target=_blank   title=\"Man Arrested, Persecuted For Toy Gun in New York\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outraged New Yorkers, government bring wrath of the law down on father Kurt NimmoInfowars.comMay 10, 2013 The hysterical response of New Yorkers to anything remotely resembling a firearm resulted in a man\u2019s arrest earlier this week. Jack Pawlowski was playing with his son when he was confronted by people outraged by his toy gun. \u201cAt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}