Criminal Law Practitioner Volume 5 Issue 1 Article 3 2019 The BB Gun: A Harmless Toy or Deadly Weapon? Practical Guidance for Objective Fact Finding in a Criminal Case Steven N. Gosney Fifth District of Florida John Zak Gettysburg College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/clp Part of the Criminal Law Commons, Evidence Commons, and the Second Amendment Commons Recommended Citation Gosney, Steven N. and Zak, John (2019) "The BB Gun: A Harmless Toy or Deadly Weapon? Practical Guidance for Objective Fact Finding in a Criminal Case," Criminal Law Practitioner: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/clp/vol5/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Criminal Law Practitioner by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Gosney and Zak: The BB Gun: A Harmless Toy or Deadly Weapon? PracticalCriminal Guidance Law Practitioner f THE BB GUN: A HARMLESS TOY OR DEADLY WEAPON? PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR OBJECTIVE FACT FINDING IN A CRIMINAL CASE Steen N Gosney and/olu Zak** BB guns (and the larger set of projective The law in Florida. As outlined below, the firing non-powder guns ("NPG")) occupy an in- law in Florida requires the State to establish the teresting niche in the law. They look like fire- deadly nature of a BB gun, and states that this is arms and fire a projectile however the power a fact question for the fact finder.3 In Florida, BB of a BB gun is generally much less than that of guns arise in various criminal contexts.