Some store stopping selling toy guns

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Quick seg on Ch 3 TV. Will see what it's about after 11pm. Local man requested it. Stand by...


PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — In a video that's circulating on multiple social media platforms, a group of men can be seen entering the Lehigh Avenue Supermarket in the Swampdoodle section of North Philadelphia and confronting the store's workers about the company's decision to sell real-looking toy guns popular among kids and teens.

One man can be heard saying, "My grandson who brought this, you know how old he is? He's 10. He's 10!"

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Anti-violence activist Terry Starks, with Express Urself Urban Crisis Response Center, is one of the men who confronted the store about selling the realistic toy guns.



"We let them know we're not coming to bother your store, but we just want to get the guns out of the store," Starks said.

"They wasn't just selling guns, they were selling guns with silencers on. Guns with scope beams on them, like little 32 revolvers," Starks said. "When you see a kid pulling these guns out, you're going to be alarmed because at the end of the day you don't know if it's real or fake, and our job is to start with the fake."

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I can see adults being concerned that a kid could wind up getting shot holding one of the toys in a stupid move. It's not like when I was a kid, and toy guns were so obviously not real. Today's molded plastics are a different story. Sad times.