Would you have suspected?
On the Green Bay Police Department post, commenters echoed officers' concerns about these products."I wish 'toy' guns were not made to look anything like real ones," one user wrote."If I saw something like that pointed at me I'd be concerned. Good way to get yourself killed. Definitely won't let my kids have something like this."
In those moments where someone mistakes a splatter gun for a real gun, the situation becomes that much riskier, police warn. Recent—primarily on TikTok—show these toy guns being used to shoot at others from cars and balconies, ABC30 Action News reported. These"challenges" are both dangerous and illegal, and in Clovis, California, an 18-year-old was arrested after shooting a gel pellet from a vehicle while driving through a parking lot.
, of the Clovis Police Department, told Action News at the time. Koch added that the gel pellets are not always painful, but will naturally scare someone who believes they have a real gun pointed at them. "You are pulling a trigger, that person is now getting struck with something and they don't know what it is," he said.Toy splatter guns have grown in popularity. One local retailer in Fresno County, California, told Action News that they had recently sold an entire shipment of these toys in just one day—even though purchasers are required to be 18 years old.
One instance involving these guns led to tragedy last month in Jackson, Mississippi, when a teenager was killed during a"." The Jackson Police Department told WLBT that teenagers pulled up to a friend's home with ski masks on, pointing the realistic-looking guns. Unaware that they were toy guns, a friend of the other teen pointed a real gun back, shooting and killing a 15-year-old. The Jackson Police Department concluded that the shooting was justified, but could have been avoided.
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