A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his Maryland elementary school last month for making a gun gesture with his hand, aiming his fingers at a classmate and saying, "Pow." Now, his family is fighting the one-day suspension with the help of legal counsel.

The boy is a student at Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md. He made the gesture and was suspended one week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut that prompted tighter security at schools nationwide.

Family attorney Robin Ficker says the school is overreacting.

"What they're doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation of a young, naive 6-year-old, " Ficker told the Washington Examiner of school officials. "This is a little child who can't form the intent to do anything like that."

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