A man is in custody after reportedly using a Nintendo Duck Hunt gun to rob a convenience store in South Carolina.
which was originally bright orange and gray, but local authorities said Dalesandro had spray-painted it black.
The York County Sheriff’s Department released images of Dalesandro and the duck hunt gun on its Twitter page in response to requests about the fake gun’s appearance. “You asked and here it is... the black spray-painted Duck Hunt game controller gun,” the sheriff’s department wrote.Police said they found the duck hunt pistol in Dalesandro’s pants and he was arrested and booked into the York County Detention Center.
Despite reports of a rise in crime using fake guns, this has been an ongoing problem since the mid to late 1980s. Ainitiated by the U.S. Congress in 1990 found that between January 1985 and September 1989, 458 police departments amounting to 65.5% of the study, reported that 5,654 robberies were committed with an imitation gun. This accounted for 15% of all robberies, and during that same time period, the report found that 8,128 known assaults were committed using imitation guns.
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