Posted on 01/03/2010 11:46:10 AM PST by Sasparilla
The shooting of a twelve year old boy by police has precipitated a Arkansas law banning the sale of realistic looking toy guns.
He was shot by police after they say that he pointed a gun at them which turned out to be a toy gun.
The boy’s mother says that the toy gun was “planted” on the child, and he was actually holding a bottle of soda when he was shot. She fought against the law being named after her son. The gun “found” by police had.....
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Heck, we sometimes used real guns playings army in our neighborhood. No ammo of course. I had several foreign rifles and a couple old handguns dad brought back from WWII in addition to a couple sets of German sword/sabre sets we had sword fights with.
Even took them to school on occasions for show & tell.
Yeah, I guess I do look back and wonder at times how I made through childhood alive. :)
I saw an airsoft 1911 at the gun show today that you couldn’t tell from the real thing.
That being said, I did have a lot of fun with toy guns growing up. We certainly wanted the ones that looked as realistic as possible.
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