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Spread of Replica Plastic Guns Worries US Police Who May Shoot Owners
18 February 2008
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
When deputies arrived, Sgt. Duane Hendrix's children were in the street outside the Seattle police officer's Pierce County home.
Neighbors had spotted them running around, playing with what, to any casual observer, looked to be handguns. The deputies approached with their own weapons holstered, checked the children's guns and found them to be airsoft pistols, an increasingly popular type of replica gun that fires oversize plastic BBs.
Hendrix says his children have a... (GunPolicy.org)