Read a Transcript of the 911 Call That Led to the Airsoft Ban

When Chief Mike Reynolds asked council members to approve , he only had to reach back to March 9 for a frightening near miss.

The incident began at about 6 p.m. when three young girls in a home reported seeing a guy wearing all black and ski mask get out of his car carrying a gun that looked like the ones police carry.

The girls were so frightened that three times they refused to look outside in order to provide more information to the dispatcher.

Officers responded with what Reynolds called a “tactical approach”—having only the information that the girls were able to provide—and came upon the suspect.

“They gave orders to drop the gun, and thank goodness he did,” Reynolds said.

No one got hurt in that incident, but police say the community needs a ban on carrying replica firearms in public in order to prevent encounters like that in the future.

Click on the PDFs above to read the transcript of the 911 call.

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