In November, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed when Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann mistook Tamir’s airsoft- pellet gun for a real one. Tamir’s toy gun also lacked the ...

Uproar Over Student’s Toy Gun. By Holly J. Wolcott . March 23, 2004 12 AM PT . ... Houchin’s silver-and-black air gun fires small, hard plastic pellets that are not considered harmful.

It’s criminal to make toy guns look too real By C.W. Nevius , Columnist Updated Jan 7, 2015 4:12 p.m. When Matthew Hoffman pulled a gun on police officers at Mission Station Sunday evening, he ...

In the District, realistic-looking toy or air-powered guns cannot be possessed in public. In 2012, , Washington, D.C., police seized about 450 imitation guns, according to the most recent data ...

You might remember the iconic scene from "A Christmas Story" of a young Ralphie dreaming of that Red Ryder BB gun under the ...

Non-powder based guns are any gun, toy, BB or air, that doesn’t use an explosion within the chamber to propel a projectile, such as a bullet. “Toys are supposed to be fun,” said Joan Siff, ...

Air guns — an umbrella term which includes BB and pellet guns in both rifle and handgun forms — often are marketed as toys, but they’ve become more dangerous as weapons technology has evolved.

The young 12-year-old naïve Tamir Rice would still be alive today, if his toy gun, which he pointed at responding police, looked like a toy. Solution: Legislatively mandate that all air-soft type ...

Little Ralphie Parker from the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story spends most of the movie wishing for a "Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model Air Rifle." Many toy guns look more real ...