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OFF-TARGET; WHY ARE CHUKA STICKS ILLEGAL, BUT NOT AK-47 KNOCKOFF?(Editorial)(Editorial)

The idea of teenagers in possession of an assault rifle is disturbing enough.

The idea of teenagers running through the streets of Solvay, toting that rifle, is beyond disturbing.

But the idea that it is legal for those teenagers to own the gun, a copycat of an AK-47, but not the chuka sticks police say they found in one of the teen's bedrooms - is almost beyond belief.

Yet that was the scenario that led police to arrest Solvay residents Matthew Pyke, 17, and Derrek Terpening, 18, recently and charge them with two misdemeanors: reckless endangerment for allegedly hiding Terpening's rifle in a yard as they ran from Pyke's father - who discovered the pair with the ...

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