Believe it or not, I too have banned toy guns from my household.
When my daughter was born, I commissioned my blacksmith knife maker to build a custom skinner/hunter for her. It’s beautiful.
When she was 3 I started to build her her first rifle - While other kids will be getting a single shot 22, I built her a 10-22 that looks like an archangel. I have her AR15 80% lower ready to go too.
She’ll get these probably this year. She’s 4.
i decided to teach my kids the severity of guns as “All guns are real” and simply don’t want her playing with toy guns. I want her practicing with a real one.
We did the same with our girls, but we waited until they were a few years older, 7 if I remember right.