In an effort to prevent misjudged police-involved killings such as the fatal shooting of Tyre King, aged 13 — who was killed September 14 in Columbus, Ohio,
by officers who mistook his BB gun for a real weapon — towns and cities
across America are reviewing and implementing regulation that bans
residents from owning realistic, non-lethal weapons.
According to a report in the Guardian,
28 people with BB guns were shot and killed by police in 2015 alone.
After 12-year-old Tamir Rice of Cleveland was shot and killed by police
in 2014 when officers mistook his toy gun for a real one, several cities
began proposing a ban on replica guns. Last November, Boston passed a ban
on realistic-looking toy hand guns. A dozen states have already passed
laws restricting fake guns, and Baltimore is currently considering a
city-wide ban on replica guns.
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