Give me a break here. "Police took the BB pistol into safekeeping". I wonder if they frisked him for a cigarette lighter or other dangerous contraband!

"Police took the BB pistol into safekeeping" WTH?

A b&b gun can be just as deadly as a real gun. He's lucky he didn't draw it on someone who may have had the real thing ang got his a$$ shot. Some people have no common sense. A gun is a gun is a gun. It may sound petty, but that BB gun could have gotten that young man shot!

a gun is not a gun is a gun son. funny you mention common sense. :-)

Once again, there is no legal way to confiscate private property for "safekeeping" Section 15-5-31

Search for dangerous weapon; procedure if weapon or other thing found.

When a sheriff or other officer acting as sheriff, his deputy or any constable, acting within their respective counties, any marshal, deputy marshal or policeman of any incorporated city or town within the limits of the county or any highway patrolman or state trooper has stopped a person for questioning pursuant to this article and reasonably suspects that he is in danger of life or limb, he may search such person for a dangerous weapon. If such officer finds such a weapon or any other thing, the possession of which may constitute a crime, he may take and keep it until the completion of the questioning, at which time he shall either return it, if lawfully possessed, or arrest such person.