Walmart and other large retailers to stop selling realistic toy guns in New York
Source: The Guardian
Several New York retailers, including Walmart, Sears and Amazon, have agreed to remove realistic toy guns from their shelves and pay $300,000 in penalties as part of a settlement with the state.
The state attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, announced on Monday that his office had found more than 6,400 toy guns sold from 2012 to 2014 that violated preexisting New York laws, which ban the sale of black, blue, silver, or aluminum toy guns. Instead, these must be brightly colored or translucent.
“There have been instances in states around the country in which police officers have mistaken toy guns for actual guns,” Schneiderman said in an interview with the New York Times. “It’s an absolutely unnecessary risk, because toy guns, as New York law requires, can be easily distinguishable.”
Following the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November, when an officer in Cleveland mistook his toy gun for a real one, pressure to regulate toy guns has increased.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/03/toy-guns-walmart-amazon-new-york-settlement
Ellen Brait in New York
Monday 3 August 2015 21.07 BST
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the real solution would obviously be to supply them real guns... 
