A Mississippi man was arrested on firearms charges after a disassembled pistol was found concealed in a LEGO set and in a boot at Newark airport.

The Mississippi man stuffed the gun frame in the bottom of a boot and hid other parts of the weapon in a box of Legos stashed in his carry-on bag, the agency said in an Oct. 17 news release.

But guns are part of our reality and a normal part of kids’ play, and that means it’s important to have regular conversations with them about real guns, toy guns, and how to set boundaries ...

In the 1980s, he said, the Tyco toy company “famously placed a full-page ad in The Toy Book with bold , black text in all caps: TYCO DECLARES WAR ON LEGO. It didn’t end well for them,” Zahn ...

The Mississippi man stuffed the gun frame in the bottom of a boot and hid other parts of the weapon in a box of Legos stashed in his carry-on bag, the agency said in an Oct. 17 news release.