JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Deputies in North Carolina seized what looked like a Nerf toy gun but turned out to be an actual firearm. The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said that during a drug raid, ...

From Barbie dolls to action figures, the range of toys available to kids is expansive. But when a kid picks up a play gun from the toy aisle, parents may pause to question whether or not plastic ...

“Here,” said a mom friend said last summer as she reached into her bag of pool toys and handed my 2-year-old son a small water gun. My stomach dropped. I didn’t know how to react. I’d always known ...

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For the fourth year in a row, a community on Long Island, New York, encouraged children to swap their toy guns for substitute goods – all in the quest to curb gun violence. On Thursday afternoon, ...

Toy guns must be brightly colored or translucent under NY law that went into effect this week. This builds on existing New York City laws. Since 1994, there have been at least 63 shootings from actual ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Clovis Police are trying to get ahead of yet another trend on social media that's not only dangerous but can be illegal--toy guns that shoot gel pellets. Videos on TikTok show ...

TO FIGURE OUT THE CAUSE OF DEATH. A CATAWBA COUNTY MAN IS ACCUSED OF DISGUISING A REAL GUN AS A TOY GUN. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY MADE THE DISCOVERY THIS WEEK DURING A DRUG RAID. 35-YEAR-OLD DAMIEN ALONZO ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Back to Basics Ministries and Buffalo Fathers are working to combat gun violence on Buffalo's East Side. The organizations held a toy gun exchange Friday evening on Jefferson ...

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Click to open image viewer. This plastic "laser gun" toy was made in Taiwan, probably in the 1970s or 1980s. In contrast to earlier toy space weapons that used rays (atomic or otherwise) to defeat ...