The awkward twists of language surrounding toy guns stem from a shift in how adults think about play, toy gun makers say. A BB gun is “a relationship activity, not a babysitter like a video game ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The NYPD promoted on social media the confiscation of what it categorized as an air rifle on the West Shore of Staten Island. A photo attached to a tweet from the 121st ...

Erick Gelhaus, 48, who has been with the sheriff's office for 24 years and is considered a firearms expert, shot Lopez seven times on October 22 because he believed the toy gun rifle the teen was ...

A young man holding a toy rifle in a Wal-Mart was shot and killed on Tuesday by police in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, Ohio, according to Raw Story. John Crawford, 22, was carrying a toy gun ...

Screen capture/CBS New York OCEANSIDE , N.Y., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A couple in Long Island were horrified to find an assault rifle inside a package they thought contained a child's toy.

At about 6:50 p.m., officers with the Oklahoma City Police Department responded to a 22-year-old man pointing a firearm near ...