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.

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.

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I’d always known that I didn’t want my kids to play with toy guns, but I didn’t know I would be faced with this type of moment so soon. My kids were just 3 and 2.

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 ...

Gun violence was an epidemic problem in the 1980s too, when I was a kid happily pretend-playing with guns, so I recognize that this isn’t an entirely logical position.

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 ...

Watching a one-minute video on firearm safety can lower the risk that children will touch a gun that they find. That's the major takeaway from a new JAMA Pediatrics study that put kids in a ...

St. Louis Park police provided this photo of a toy gun wielded Friday night by teens they encountered. Breaking: Some kids played in a park with toy guns and did not get killed, news at 10.

BEFORE Russia invaded Ukraine, Varvara Tupkalenko's two sons played at home with miniature cars, like many boys their age.

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.