I despise these "toy" guns that look real.
I've been bitching about this for years, knowing that some kid would get shot over one of them.
In this case it was suicide by cop, but I still despise these things.
There have been other cases of kids shot because a cop saw them with a fake or toy gun, and thought it was real. When my boys were growing up I completely disallowed any real looking toy guns (brightly colored plastic water pistols were ok). Our reasoning was that we had REAL guns in the house and we never wanted the kids to get the idea that anything like that was a toy. Some might think that's dumb, but it seemed reasonable to us.
susie
It didn't look "real" until someone painted over the bright orange tip on the barrel.
And even an extremely low IQ person should no by the age of 15 that you NEVER point any kind of gun (toy or not) at a police officer.