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Police warn that 'splat guns' firing gel beads can cause injury and be mistaken for real guns, putting both users and others ...
Is this gun real? Take the quiz .... Can you differentiate between a toy gun and a real one? Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association President Steve Loomis says that in many cases it’s nearly ...
Despite all the attempts to make toys look like toys, nothing's being done to make real guns look real. And we've seen the tragic results when police confuse a toy for real weapon. In 2013 ...
The problem isn't toys, it's toy guns manufactured to look real. With hundreds of millions of real guns on our streets, why make it so hard to tell the difference? Conservatives scoffed when the ...
Penny Okamoto, executive director of the gun control nonprofit Ceasefire Oregon, says her group would like to see a statewide ban on the sale of replica guns. "Guns are not toys," Okamoto says.
And last month, on the other side of the state, a 12-year-old Cleveland boy was killed by a policeman who thought that the boy’s toy gun was real. WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor Both ...
Chester police are sounding off on the dangers of toy guns like ‘Orbeez’ guns, which can be mistaken for real guns. The city's mayor and other city leaders are also looking to get ahead of the ...
A 2018 Emory University survey of hundreds of children and caregivers found that a majority of kids couldn’t tell the difference when shown photos of real and toy guns. Bill language for New ...
Police responded to a high school in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday after someone mistook a toy gun for a real one and called 911. Officials said someone told a school crossing guard ...
A toy gun sold on Temu is being recalled because it could be mistaken for a real gun. It is missing the orange tip required on toy guns. A toy gun sold on Temu is being recalled because it could ...