Student arrested for building toy guns in his dorm
James sends us a link to the New York Post in regards to a 20-year-old NYU student who was building Airsoft guns in his dorm room and selling them on the internet. A couple of maintenance works saw the realistic looking toys in the youth’s room and called police.
NYPD cops arrested Goal at 2:30 p.m. Monday and hit him with six misdemeanor violations of a local law that prohibits the possession or sale of air rifles and replica firearms, according to a law enforcement source.
Nice going, NYPD. Gun control extends to harmless toys now? You probably solved all of the world’s problems with that bust. Proud, you should be.
“It’s very scary to know there were guns one floor below me. I had no idea,” said one of Goal’s co-workers, who described him as pleasant and a hard worker. “But knowing Bernard I’m not scared.”
Yeah, scary to know that there were toys just one floor away, huh? So, I guess the war on terrorism is over now, we can all sleep peacefully in our beds tonight because the NYPD has made the world safer by shutting down a toy manufacturer.
Category: "Teh Stoopid"
“It’s very scary to know there were guns one floor below me.” Because you’re a sniveling little coward? Thankfully, there are treatments available for it. Talk to your local recruiter for more information.
Bb guns and replicas are now illegal? Get your shit together new York.
Flipside: no one is going to risk being “He Who Let a Mass Murderer Go Free” like the young men at Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colorado.
Rule-based law enforcement must enforce the rules. Judgement is a liability.
Since when did we get emasculated??? I just read a book(A Deeper Blue) where people continued their lives in the middle of a terrorist attack, knowingly, to prove the terrorists didn’t succeed!!! We cower behind closed doors and abdicate our security, our well being, to somebody else…
My brother and his roommate in college were making sandwiches and selling them to the kids in the dorm. Those sandwich buyers were much more likely to die of food poisoning than anyone who acquired one of Goal’s toys.
It’s nice to know that cowards are in charge everywhere… well, except at my house.
WTF??? I guess they figure these are “gateway” items that lead to violent behavior involving real guns. Or maybe Mayor Bloomberg’s Gestapo have nothing better to do, you know like cracking down on the drug trade or real illegal guns.
How much of a GIGANTIC pussy do you have to be in order to be afraid of a toy gun? Seriously? If the guy had toy animals would they charge him with owning livestock in a dorm room or running an unlicensed zoo? If he had a model airplane, would they charge him with flying without a pilots license? His neighbor’s room must be stuffed with enormous tampons for when he hemorrhages tens of gallons of man-struation every month.
Dammit I just want to slap the piss out of that guy and the DA pushing this frivolous bullshit.
Airsoft and pellet guns aren’t really “toys” so there is a safety issue there. But I would bet a dollar to a doughnut that if the kid was making slingshots,throwing stars or blowguns it wouldn’t have hit the news or been a charge.
If you’re mad, go beat a lawyer. Cops exercise judgement at the risk of their jobs. This is the consequence of lawyers enriching themselves through frivolous lawsuits.
Knowing that there are or are not scary guns in a building one floor below me is not nearly as disturbing as knowing that there are idiots in the building with their thumbs in their ears, refusing to even contemplate that there is a distinct difference between defensive use of weapons (scary or not) and those who illegally conduct criminal enterprise with or without weapons. Like smoking dope, and countless other stuff. In that same building.
These are students, right? None of them has ever been drunk, either, or driven a car high on something. Now that is really scary.
If the kid was attending NYU, he wasn’t worth a good FD anyway, liberal bastion that it is.
FD=fire department. I meant GD.
Someone calls 911 and reports man with guns in a school. Cops fly over, catch airhead with some toys. There’s no way they are leaving w/o arresting him. But it has nothing to do with lawyers. It has everything to do with the where, the what, and the when.
@13, don’t forget the who, Mayor Doomberg.
You have to understand that NYC has been screwed up for decades; air guns have been illegal in the confines of the city in the 1960’s when I was a kid. BTW compound bows are also illegal, that is one of the reasons why I moved to the upper counties thirty years ago.
Damnyankees are crazy stupid.
@1-recruiter can’t help. You need a spine to pass medical. And if you’re male you need at least 1 testicle
Pathetic……
Please don’t kill me for saying this, but the picture of the kid in the Post story apparently shows the student in his garb and with either one of his creations or one that he purchased. What is missing from the toy guy is an orange tip so police and everyone else can see that the gun is not real and will not shoot bullets.
If someone had said “put an orange tip on those things,” I wouldn’t have an issue with it but to arrest the kid for assembling a non lethal toy just because it looks mean is nuts.
Make sandwiches, not guns.
@4, James… did you really bring up a book in the Paladin of Shadow’s series? You realize that those were written as gun-porn, right? Anyone who has ever read Ghost knows this.
As for this kid… I think the police should go after the people who shoot indiscriminately into crowds… oh, wait… that’s them.
They should go after the gang-bangers and drug dealers who are a real threat to the city, not a kid making toys to pay his way through college.
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Now, now, now, maybe, JUST MAYBE it could’ve just been the Nanny Bloomer (*WHOOPS!* Bloomberg!) Brigade being proactive and making sure these precious little tykes don’t shoot their eyes out or get used to the thought of *GASP!* owning guns?!!
/exit sarc mode
Seriously, how much longer are we going to put up with all of this bullshit!?!? I want to roll through the government, school boards and any other office that has been creating this stupid shit with my steel toe boots and let the asses fly!
Surprised? No, not really. We have had an active campaign, in this country, to turn our children into sniveling, gutless, crybabies for a few decades, now. Starting in the 90’s we felt that boys were being too much like boys, so we came up with ADHD to categorize their behaving like boys and then we drugged them to turn them into drooling zombies. Then, they were told they can’t play Army, because that incites violence. Then, they were told that you can’t make toy weapons, because others might be scared.
We have turned our kids into whiney adults that lose their minds over a pop tart.
Also, he wasn’t building air rifles, he was building airsoft guns, which are vastly different and less dangerous than air rifles, of course, the media can’t be bothered with knowing the difference. Air rifles can shoot BBs or pellets, that can kill small animals. Airsoft shoots plastic pellets that can piss off a squirrel and that’s about it.
@25 – OT, I love that last sentence.
I am from Northwest Indiana and the only thing going through my mind right now is ………..”You’ll shoot yer eye out, kid!”
@27: Well, it’s true!!
What kind of wine sipping, double non-fat soy latte drinking eunic do you have to be to be afraid of a gun that shoots plastic fucking BBs? The dude has a mangina the size of Texas.
OT, you are funiier than a squirrel with a sealed bag of peanuts!
Not that I disagree with the sentiments expressed here, but to play devil’s advocate for a moment – if he is in violation of the terms of what he can and can not have in his dorm room, then he should be held accountable for that. Doesn’t matter what sort of contraband he might have. Of course, if other contraband is routinely ignored, like maybe hot plates for cooking, there are other issues to consider.
Just stating the obvious here. When you occupy property owned by someone else, you go by the rules of the owner.
@28, What a coincidence I am also from Northwest Indiana.
When do the NYPD have time for this? Aren’t they busy w/ their real jobs – bribes and protection rackets?
@33 – Devtun, you left out racial profiling people minding their own business on the sidewalk.
Its easier to go after builders of toy guns than gang-bangers. Toys won’t put holes in you.
Regardless, that school sounds like WUSS Central!!
So in NYC where there is an extremely high unemployment rate a young entrepreneur builds and sells a toy product over the internet to help him pay for school or books or whatever, someone who is a complete and total idiot calls the cops.
The cops arrive and realize it’s a toy gun manufacturer and they arrest him for a misdemeanor possession of toy guns….meanwhile the illegal chemical manufacturers who are using illegal real guns to acquire and defend territory to promote the illegal use of their illegal product, all of which are Class A felonies, are relatively unchallenged on a daily basis, although everyone in the city knows where, when, and how these illegal activities take place each day.
It’s clear that I don’t understand big city policing methodology. I would think felony criminal activities that result in daily homicides would be of serious interest, and non-theft misdemeanors regarding the illegal selling of toys would be a simple catch and release program. I would think the Post would better serve the public by pointing out on a daily basis the victims and perpetrators of capital crime in their city. Being a constant annoying voice regarding the difficult issues surrounding the drug trade is not very “sexy” for today’s modern journalists, they prefer outing legal handgun owners and reporting on students illegally selling toys from a dorm room…no wonder New York City is such a sterling example of the modern American dream, you know the one where the government helps you decide what pop you can drink and how much but does little to stem the tide of illegal immigrants and minority murderers….
@36: Yeah, the ratio of pasty metrosexual eunics to real men is probably about 1000/1. I guess the women at NYU like the type that can comment about the “brilliant” artist whose work looks like someone vomitted on the canvas after a bender in korean Village, but wet their diaper when someone shows them a picture of a gun.
VOV: unlike most NYC newspapers, the Post is reasonably conservative in its editorial outlook (they regularly publish columns by Ralph Peters). I’m guessing they ran the story to highlight the absurdity of the arrest.
My favorite involved a trip to LA where I was supposed to do some photography with a model who likes comic books, and who wanted to do some comic book themed shooting. I brought along a plastic replica gun, and put it in my luggage to fly under the belly of the plane. I told the airline it was there so the TSA wouldn’t panic at the discovery. Later on I was called into the TSA area, where they made me show them it wasn’t a real gun. I was informed that I couldn’t fly with it unless we could clear the weapon. I pointed out it was plastic, and under the belly of the plane, but that didn’t matter. We eventually got tools and disassembled it to prove there was no ammo in the plastic pistol, which I’d not have my hands on at any time in the flight. The model cancelled due to the flu.
@19, gitarcarver: that law specifically exempts BB guns and AirSoft guns from the orange-tip requirement, although many manufacturers do so any way. They’re probably worried about being sued.
@Hondo:
Don’t count on that. The Post may be conservative, but all the rags in NYC are anti-gun.
“By order of the Mayor of Sombertown, Burgermeister Meisterburger, toys are hereby declared illegal, immoral, and unlawful. Anyone found with a toy in their posession will be placed under arrestand thrown in the dungeon. No kidding! Burgermeister Meisterburger”
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