A major reason parents don’t like kids to play with pretend guns is they’re afraid you’ll get hurt. It can be hard for others to tell if a gun is real or just a toy.

Guns look like toys to kids. No matter what you tell them they’re going to know where they’re stored and be interested in playing with them,” said Dr. Donnelly.

“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 ...

At least one retailer has already stopped selling some types of toy guns. In February, when Walmart announced that it would raise the purchase age for firearms at its stores to 21, the company ...

She frets that kids playing with toy guns “will be a problem when kids start getting them for Christmas, learn to quickly assemble their guns & bring them to school,” as if – between ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — LMPD is asking parents to talk to their children about playing with realistic looking fake guns. At LMPD's bi-weekly press conference, Deputy Chief Ryan Bates shared pictures ...

I bought it at Butler Drug on 26th and Nicollet using hoarded lunch money. It was a Wasp 8-shot, all black, with a metal cylinder that snapped out for easy loading. The toy cap gun had an orange ...

Watching a one-minute video on gun safety can lower the risk that children will touch a found firearm. (Illustration: Victoria Ellis for Yahoo; Photo: Getty Images) Watching a one-minute video on ...

Two children were playing with toy guns over the weekend when one of them picked up a rifle and fatally shot the other one, Alaska State Troopers said Sunday. Troopers responded to Mountain ...

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION — An elementary school in Hayward, Calif. will sponsor a toy gun trade-in, encouraging kids to swap their harmless toy weapons for a chance to win a new bicycle.