Pellet Gun Safety Study Ordered After Child’s Eye Injury
Following the accidental injury of a child last month, a report on the safety of pellet guns has been ordered by the City Council.
Council members temporarily rescinded the outright ban on the guns they had imposed on April 23 after realizing that the city’s Public Safety Committee had not been consulted.
“They are a natural to review this issue,” Mayor Thomas W. Wilson said at Tuesday’s meeting. The council wants the group to return in 60 days with a recommendation on whether to make the discharge of pellet guns illegal in Laguna Niguel.
The council’s initial ban was in reaction to an April 9 incident in which a 5-year-old boy suffered a serious eye injury after a playmate fired one of the guns.
“We want (the committee) to explore what’s being done about BB guns in surrounding communities,” Wilson said. “We also want a history of their use in Laguna Niguel. At the moment, we don’t know if there’s a proliferation of problems or if we’re reacting to an isolated incident.”
Lt. Joseph Davis, the city’s chief of police services, has recommended a ban on pellet guns.
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