Court Opinion

ID: 9568334
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:02:45.314592+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:24:38.006827
License: Public Domain

Higgins, J.,
concurring: I concur in the opinion. However, court decisions that air rifles are not per se dangerous weapons are as out of date as the horse andi buggy. Marvelous -advances have been made both in the precision and power of pneumatic arms. Sporting magazines on .practically every newsstand carry stories and advertisements of air rifles capable of driving a lead slug through a three-quarter-inch pine board. It is time for the courts to find out what the public, or at least those interested in such matters, has known for some time —'that a well manufactured air rifle is now not only a dangerous, but a deadly weapon. I am unable to approve decisions to the contrary.