scenario...your views?

[twinkles**stars]

How would you react to this scenario?

Driving along a road you see a young boy in school uniform on his way to school waving a gun and knife at passing traffic.

Would you ignore him or take steps to ensure the gun and knife are 'toys' and not the real deal?

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Really?... I personally have seen hundreds of kids walking around with Army show bags at the exhibition....

All containing toy guns/weapons.

Multiple that around Australia over a couple of years alone...........thats a lot of toy guns.

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@am*3 wrote:

The school staff never reprimanded the OP for giving them this information, why does another member of the pubic think they can state she shouldn't have done it?

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No.   They laughed.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

I think lots of parents don't buy guns for their children but there are always Aunts and Uncles who do. Although we did buy a potato gun for one of ours. Sometimes this forum makes me realize how bad a parent I was.

Haha, just asked Mr 17 if he remembers having a toy gun and his response was ' yes, plenty, used to get them from the show.'

[cherry*135]

siggie:  No.   They laughed.

You don't know that is 100% true either. How about sticking to some facts?. Either way, they didn't tell her she was wasting her/their time or not to tell them such things.

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@**meep** wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Correct, you don't need a licence....why, because they are legal toys.

Approval or exemptions paper work for buying your child a toy gun from a toy store?... what rubbish.

You are confused........they are not prohibited weapons....they are toys.

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Of course, it is entirely possible that I am confused, so please explain to me what this means:

In the state of Victoria, devices that can reasonably  be mistaken for working firearms based on their overall appearance (but do not have the functionality of a working firearm) are classified as imitation firearms.

Whilst certain products may have been manufactured as toys, they may have the overall appearance of a firearm and can be reasonably mistaken for an operable firearm.

A Chief Commisioner's Prohibited Weapons Approval or Governor in Council Exemption is required to possess, carry, use, offer for sale or import an imitation firearm.

What does a Chief Commisioner's Prohibited Weapons Approval or Governor in Council Exemption allow you to do?

One of these authorities, will allow you to manufacture, possess, carry, use, sell  or import an imitation firearm in the State of Victoria (depending on your genuine reason for obtaining the authority)

(imitations and replicas are not the same thing)

Could you or someone please interpret  the above for me?

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How many people are filling out paper work to purchase toy guns at exhibitions, toys r us etc,.....none.

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@am*3 wrote:

siggie:  No.   They laughed.

You don't know that is 100% true either. How about sticking to some facts?. Either way, they didn't tell her she was wasting her/their time or not to tell them such things.

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That is what the OP said.....are you calling the OP a liar?

[debra9275]

AFAIK, they have pretty tight regulations on toys in showbags, so they must be toys that can't be mistaken for the real thing.

none of the kids I've known have had any gun toys & I've known quite a few kids lol

maybe we just move in diifferent circles?

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

The boy was about 10? The school thought it funny 😞 a left over from Holloween.

If they were real ( and we don't know) the boy could have caused a lot of grief. Better to be safe than sorry is not being an alarmist....it's being concerned for everyones safety.

am*3 mine were not allowed to play with toy weapons either. Too many 'toys' later become the real thing 😞

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Here it is.

[debra9275]

I wonder if they still have them Em?

mine were always more into the lolly aspect of showbags, so I've never seen them, apart from water pistols

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Thinking of the **bleep**nal of broken toy guns buried in our back yard where the boys dirt heap used to be and where there was once a ww2 shelter trench, I think generally they were pretty obviously plastic toys. The plastic spiders and insects that accompany them sometimes give the heart a jolt when they surface unexpectedly.