As part of the program, children also swapped toy guns for bicycles, electronic devices and toys.

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"Yeah, it is, " I replied, thinking about all the times I'd seen him pretend to shoot people with toy guns and with the mouse on his computer.

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My son, Douglas, loves to play with toy guns.

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Background checks would be more thorough, gun owners would have to reapply for licences every five years, and fully automatic assault rifles, armour-piercing bullets, lifelike toy guns, and gun-lending would be banned.

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Let me get this straight: Children are not allowed to have toy guns that look like the real thing, but adults are allowed to have the real thing that looks like a toy?

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Children as young as five have been kicked out of school for possessing cough drops, or for wearing Halloween costumes that include paper swords and fake spikes, or for possessing rubber bands or toy guns.

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In the case of toy guns, manufacturers since the late 1980s have been required by federal law to use distinctive "blaze orange" barrel plugs or markings to ensure that the toys are not mistaken for the real thing.

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Stories of seven-year-olds suspended for biting a pastry into the shape of a gun, first graders sent home for talking about toy guns, or kindergarteners suspended for bringing a toy gun to school or just discussing shooting a bubble squirt gun at another child are depressingly commonplace.

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Ecclestone -- never one to kowtow to convention -- may have missed the Shia protesters carrying toy machine guns and wearing motor racing overalls.

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