The gun was fake but, as the Queens Gazette notes, the threats were real enough to be taken into custody:

A 26-year-old man of Middle Eastern descent was observed pointing a machine gun, which later proved to be a replica, at an establishment at Queens Plaza North and Crescent Street on Wednesday, August 9. The weapon had “snaps” in it, causing it to make realistic noises of a gun being fired. He also resisted arrest. He was charged with making terroristic threats, menacing, resisting arrest, harassment, violation of a local law and disorderly conduct.

The question is what he was terroristically threatening. A strip club?

I think there’s also an army recruiter there, so maybe it was that . . . suffice it to say, we don’t need more crazy people waving guns — fake or real — at “establishments,” especially with Seattle so fresh in everyone’s minds.

Location scout: Queens Plaza.