Dog As Deadly Weapon

Mr. Austin, 23, was arrested on charges of menacing, assault, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon. “Namely,” the indictment reads, “a pit bull dog.”

The case, from August 2012, is a rare example of a New Yorker’s being arrested on a weapons possession charge, a misdemeanor, for a dog. 

Courts around the country have long grappled with the question of canine weaponization. Over the years, judges have mostly arrived at the same conclusion: if you use Fido as a weapon, he becomes one. 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/nyregion/in-brooklyn-weapons-possession-case-the-dangerous-objects-were-dogs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0