A judge has upheld the suspension of a Maryland school pupil who chewed his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun and pretended to shoot classmates.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Ronald Silkworth ruled that the school system could reasonably consider the seven-year-old boy's actions disruptive and a two-day suspension was appropriate.

Reports said that in March 2013 the Brooklyn Park pupil nibbled his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun and exclaimed: "Look, I made a gun!" The incident happened less than three months after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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