When I was 15, I was focused on girls, getting my driver's license, and girls.

I'd love to say that I was focused on school, but that wasn't really the case. I did plenty of other things, including playing sports, Boy Scouts, and a host of other activities, but those were all peripheral to my real interests.

Yet 15-year-olds aren't the same these days. They weren't all the same in my day either, to be honest, but today is a much different world. There are so many ways kids can spend their time.

For one Brooklyn kid, that apparently consists of being arrested.

A 15-year-old Brooklyn kid was nabbed with a gun on a basketball court Monday — one of six busts already under his belt, including others for robberies and thefts, law-enforcement sources say.

The Coney Island teen — whose name was withheld because of his age — dropped the handgun on the ground as cops approached him while he was shooting hoops on the court in southern Brooklyn, sources said.

The teen was charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

Maybe it's just me, but committing felonies is a terrible pastime for a teenager, especially in a city like New York that has tons of other things to do.

Then again, we had youth felons aplenty back in my day. I'd love to pretend otherwise, but considering how many people I knew who were my age with multiple arrests--not friends, mind you, just people I knew--it would be impossible to pretend there weren't even worse offenders out there.

But that's only one thing that struck me about this case.

The biggest thing I want people to take away from this is that this is a 15-year-old kid who was busted for possessing a firearm in the most gun-controlled city in the nation, even after Bruen.

That case didn't open the door for kids to walk into gun stores and walk out with firearms. There's no way this kid can lawfully get a gun, even without the arrests. That's federal law, even, so it's not like he just went to New Hampshire to get a gun.

All of that gun control in the Big Apple, and they couldn't get a teenager from getting a firearm? We're told gun control can keep adult criminals from getting a firearm, but here's a child with one in a city that has more than pretty much anywhere else in the nation. How is it that this master criminal bypassed all of those laws yet, somehow, grown adults with even longer criminal histories won't be able to figure it out?

The ridiculousness of this argument is astounding, as is the fact that so many people will still try to make this a problem only because of gun rights in this nation.

Gun control doesn't work, and if a kid getting a gun doesn't illustrate that perfectly enough for you, then you've clearly gone out of  your way to not be objective about whether such laws can or will do much of anything and there's no hope for you in the least.