Many parents don't want their kids to play with toy guns. Here's how they can enforce those boundaries. (Image: Getty; illustration by Aida Amer for Yahoo) “Here,” said a mom friend said last summer ...

From Barbie dolls to action figures, the range of toys available to kids is expansive. But when a kid picks up a play gun from the toy aisle, parents may pause to question whether or not plastic ...

Many parents don’t like guns—real ones or toys. So even though we may know that playing with pretend guns is developmentally normal, our instinct whenever our kids start building guns out of LEGO ...

The “enlightened” parents of our culture seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to keep kids from playing. From playing in the living room or classroom. From playing in front of the house ...

A reader is frustrated by her children’s gravitation toward the toy guns a family brings to play with. By Philip Galanes I bring my children to our neighborhood playground every afternoon. It’s a ...

The child was suspended for five days for bringing a "facsimile of a firearm to school" even though he was in his own home playing with the toy gun. A school in Colorado Springs called the police on a ...

Monday, the last day of summer vacation, a group of teenage boys were in a field in Briargate playing with their air soft pellet rifles when a handful of cops surrounded them. One officer drew his ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia City Council President Kenyatta Johnson pulled a gun in City Hall on ...

When National Sibling Day came around recently, I thought I found the perfect photo to post on social media. A vintage snapshot of my brother Andy and I with our toy guns pointed squarely at each ...

A few weeks ago, we asked you, our readers, if replica, airsoft and toy gun manufacturers should go to greater lengths to make sure their products actually looked fake. Here's how you responded. I'm a ...

The annual toy drive runs Dec. 1-20, with donations benefiting children across West Michigan through the Marine Corps Reserve program.