The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office predicted this scenario, and it happened. The cell phone case shaped like a handgun prompted Canadian police this weekend to storm a beach after it was reported there was a man carrying a gun in his back pocket.
The man was sitting at a beach with his family in Manitoba on Sunday when he was surrounded by police with rifles, according to local reports.
As it turns out, it wasn’t a gun, but rather the identical cell phone case the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office first warned about in June.
“It is not a cool product or a good idea,” Al Della Fave said at the time.
It didn’t take long for other agencies around New Jersey and New York to follow suit and warn residents about purchasing it. In fact, it even prompted NY Senator Chuck Schumer to call for a ban on the product.
Event though the product isn’t illegal in Canada, the man handed over his case to police to dispose of, according to reports.
Al Della Fave says he’s just glad this potentially deadly situation ended well.
“We called it!” says Della Fave. “Thank God this didn’t end in a tragedy. Take away the daylight and the family surroundings and we may have had a different turnout,” Della Fave tells TLS. “Hopefully it will serve to highlight how truly unwise it is to use this product.”
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That’s because guns are illegal there. if the govt would spend half the effort they spend banning items to normalize gun laws people wouldn’t be so paranoid of them. Besides in NJ it is completely legal to carry a real gun, albeit with a license.
I was going to respond to JOAT but his statement about nj gun law is completly absurd.
Why people aren’t Afraide so much or they would look twice since its legale to carry you wouldn’t think it’s a bad guy trying to kill it’s just another guy with a license with have prompted you to recheck you would say hey it’s fake lol cool case whatever