Walking around Times Square with AK-47 dad killed by cops

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A teenager from Ohio was arrested after being found with an unloaded semi-automatic rifle and ammunition in a bag while at a busy midtown subway station, law enforcement officials tell News 4.

The man, identified by several law enforcement sources as Saadiq Teague, was apprehended by officers at the subway station in Times Square around 12:45 p.m. Friday near the A/C/E line, the officials said.

A pair of NYPD officers performing a station inspection spotted Teague as he took the unloaded weapon out of his bag and placed it on the ground, in plain sight. The officers approached and questioned him before taking him into custody, the officials said.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea later tweeted a photo of the firearm that police found with the suspect, identifying it as an AK-47. Teague was charged with four counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal use of drug paraphernalia.

Three senior law enforcement officials said Teague is the son of Andrew Teague, who was killed in a wild police chase and shootout on an Ohio highway in March. His father had been wanted for an alleged assault in February.

Would this have been less likely to happen with an assault weapons ban?

Teague was sitting on the ground, charging his cell phone, and the gun was in plain view, according to police. He told police the gun is registered in Ohio and it was not loaded.

Officers found ammunition in a bag next to him.

The man told officers he believed his possession of the weapon was legal in the city because it was registered and not loaded.

Police say he had an Ohio identification in his possession.

I don't get the point of your response. It seems the police identified this as an AK-47. According to Google that is an assault rifle (now sorry I did the search) although there is apparently a "civilian" version that's semi-automatic. I had the impression there's an after market way to modify these. Is it your premise this kid did nothing wrong? I think most people in NYC would disagree with that.

It's not as easy to modify most semi-autos into autos as some people think. Typically those civilian models are a different internal design from mil-spec versions. They still fire as fast as you can pull the trigger though.

I don't get the point of your response. It seems the police identified this as an AK-47. According to Google that is an assault rifle (now sorry I did the search) although there is apparently a "civilian" version that's semi-automatic. I had the impression there's an after market way to modify these. Is it your premise this kid did nothing wrong? I think most people in NYC would disagree with that.

Well I'm woefully ignorant of firearms, nevertheless I still don't see why a city like New York can't make it illegal to be carrying one around in the Subway.

I was posting facts that point toward your theory being correct.

Since he registered it legally in Ohio if there was an assault weapons ban there it might have been less likely to happen