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20 stouffville suntribune thursday feb 9 2006 toy guns cause more trouble than by martin derbyshire staff writer think real guns are a problem these days toy guns may be an even bigger one york regional police took a snapshot statistical survey in vaughan for six months last year it turned out 19 per cent of the weapons calls cops received involved real guns yet a whopping 32 per cent were fakes they may seem harmless but police say the bb guns replicas and plastic shooters you can buy at sporting goods shops canadian tire or walmart can be dangerous weapons the first issue for us is the height ened fear of crime brought about by the replica guns york regional police insp paul pederson said there are more and more instances of younger people seen waving replica guns in the back seat of the car as theyre driving down the road and were getting panicked 911 calls from resi- yfss whitchurchstouffvilie softball association 2006 registration at the stouffville recreation complex at these 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someone brandishing a toy gun that looks all too real even if its just a child last month in longwood fla a swat team member shot a 15yearold boy who was allegedly terrorizing class mates with a fake pistol he refused to drop the gun and was shot after pointing it at a deputy officers believed the gun was a beretta 9 mm and didnt learn it was a pellet gun until after the shooting the boy was left brain dead officers are trained to respond to threats with the most appropriate use of force insp pederson said if some ones carrying one of these replicas and we cant tell the difference there is the potential for a very serious and signifi cant tragedy as weve seen police have documented a growing trend where fake guns are being used in real crimes insp pederson said were finding a lot of armed rob beries where a replica gun was used because a store clerk cant tell the dif ference he said criminals will com mit the most brazen acts behind the mask the replica gun gives them but whether or not the replica looks like a real gun its considered a firearm if its used to commit a crime if its used to threaten intimidate or injure its a weapon as far as the law is concerned insp pederson said just last week durham regional police arrested a 17yearold bow- manville youth on weapons charges after he allegedly fired a bb gun inside a school there it wasnt even a good replica it was like a clear plastic pea shooter said durhamregional police staffsgt pat sayer it was shaped like an uzi and if you held it held side by side it would probably look more like a water pistol but if it was pulled out quickly in front of an officer it could have been disas trous even something so obvious in a split second may have caused a tragedy staff at a markham sporting goods store refused to comment but did say they have a policy not to sell the prod ucts to anyone under 18 and while its easy to mistake a bb gun for the real thing in a dark alley ifs just as easy to mistake other objects for a weapon said ken darcy ceo of crosman corporation the manufactur er and distributor of air and bb guns that look just like the real thing it doesnt matter in a dark place he said whether its a replica a pen stick or a ringer nobody can tell the onus is on the owners of the products not to get into situations where one might be mistaken for a firearm mr darcy said in my opinion people have to take personal responsibility for use of any thing he said whether thats a repli ca gun a paintball gun or a toy gun crosman has a line of reallooking replica bb guns but they are not meant to be used by children f r semaine description du13au17 fevrier 2006 conseil scolaire pe district catholique centresud tout commence a 1 ccolc donnez a vos enfants les meilleures chances de reussite dans la vie lecole catholique de langue francaise offre une education de qualite dans un milieu de vie catholique et francophone ou le respect de la personne et la promotion de lexcellence sont des valeurs partagees au 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conventional firearms replicas not powerful enough to cause injury but designed to resem ble a real firearm with near precision these are illegal not firearms or replicas fires bbs slower than 500 feet per second and do not resemble a real gun closely enough to be considered a replica an example would be a harrn- less air gun made of clear plastic the alungssgcivtion we can help vfbrmbrev information about asthma call v the lung association this message brought to you as a community service of the economist sun