This was based on information given during a street survival seminar several years ago. Since the information had been based on their sources in police intelligence divisions and street officers reporting on seizures, I decided to trust their word. You, of course, may have different sources.
Well, I’ve never heard of a single case of it happening, so without even a single case (that I could find) of anyone being shot by something they mistakenly assumed was a toy, I think it’s B.S. from unverified sources that are selling paranoia.
On the other hand there are plenty of cases of people getting killed by cops for having something that the officer *thought* was a real gun.
Sounds like paranoid B.S. from a movie to me, however
I think having a gun that looks like something else is utterly stupid, the only purpose it *COULD* serve is to make the fervid fantasy of the kinds of paranoiacs that put on the seminar you attended actually real!