AUSTIN, Texas — More than 60,000 toy guns are being recalled because the battery can overheat and ignite, posing a fire hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves Gel ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers to immediately stop using NLFGUW electric gel ball blaster toy guns. The toy guns fail ...

Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker wants more regulations on guns, an industry he said is even less regulated than their toy imitations. Booker, a U.S. senator from New Jersey, laid out his ...

"Most people don't know that consumer product safety literally -- one industry that's been exempted is the gun lobby. So we have different regulations for toy guns and no regulations for the weapons ...

A toy gun sits among other toys in an Iowa home. Since 1989, federal law has required orange tips on the barrel end of toy guns, as a signal to police that they aren’t real working firearms. Two cops ...

Today, toy guns are in critical condition, fading fast — or at least that’s the view from, say, a Toys R Us in Fairfax County, where a simple “Um, do you have any toy guns?” transforms a friendly ...

A trio of Democratic senators sent a letter Thursday to the acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) urging the agency to update rules governing the appearance of toy guns and ...

Parents may want to think twice before buying a toy gun for their children this Christmas as several local retailers offer replicas that fire BBs or soft pellets, but look like real weapons. The Daisy ...

The scene has been repeated with agonizing frequency: Police officers encounter someone holding a gun and, fearing for their lives, they shoot to kill, only to discover that the gun was a replica so ...

Two cops rush to the scene. “This sounds like a gun battle — over there!” one calls to his partner. They see the suspects: two little boys, wielding rifles. The police officers do not shoot. Rather, ...

Two cops rush to the scene. "This sounds like a gun battle — over there!" one calls to his partner. They see the suspects: two little boys, wielding rifles. The police officers do not shoot. Rather, ...