This does seem like overkill

Man doesn't know he's not allowed to shoot crossbow, police tackle and arrest him:

Twenty police officers surged into a mobile home neighborhood in Lincoln, Neb., and slammed an unarmed man to the ground because a neighbor reported he was shooting a crossbow, and the resulting melee left two officers hurt, the man's wife and 4-year-old tossed out of their home and the Internet forum pages aglow with the flames of argument over weapons rights.
And it gets worse. There's video as well.

One of these days, someone's going to come to the door with a rifle and start ventilating these thugs.

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