After a photo was posted on Facebook of a New Jersey boy posing with a legally owned firearm, police raided his home.

Now the family wants payback.

The family, of Salem County township of Carney's Point, considered taking legal action against the four local police officers and two officials from the New Jersey Department of Children and Families that demanded to see the guns belonging to the home owner, Yahoo reported Wednesday.

Shawn Moore, who works as a firearms instructor, posted a photo on Tuesday of his 11-year-old son holding a rifle. An anonymous call was made shortly after to the family services agency.

"It led to an incredible, heavy-handed raid on his house. They wanted to see his gun safe, his guns and search his house. They even threatened to take his kids," Moore's attorney Evan Nappen said to Fox News.

Moore is a certified firearms instructor and range safety officer for The National Rifle Association. He is also a hunter education instructor in the state of New Jersey. His son, who posed for the photograph wearing camouflage and holding his new .22 rifle, has a hunting license and passed the New Jersey hunter safety course, according to the report

"If you look at the picture, his finger isn't even on the trigger-which is proper," Nappen said.

Tags
Facebook, Photo