Quite understandably, toy guns that are specifically marketed towards children is a rather controversial issue - with many parents believing that children are exposed to enough violence already in the form of cartoons, action heros and the daily news.
For others though, toy guns are simply playthings which have been enjoyed in a role-play situation for generations. Certainly many children can remember playing Cowboys and Indians - where guns always played a large part - and everyone can remember hours of fun spraying their friends and siblings with ice-cold water on a hot summers day with water pistols.
Thankfully, many of the highly-realistic replica toy guns that adorned many toy shop shelves during the 1990s are now deemed unacceptable by virtually all retailers - and the large majority of the toy guns now on sale are very much designed to encourage active group play rather than anything more sinister. You can find a list of shops that sell a selection of toy guns below.
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