Is it illegal to have a toy gun concealed?
I was just pulled over today and searched by 2 policemen who got a report about someone who looked like they a gun in their pocket.
I did have a toy gun in my pocket but it was not sticking out in any manner. It was concealed and never took it out in public. I am 14 years old and I bought it at a Halloween store. They stopped me and told me to put my hands on my head and get on my knees or sit on the curb. He told me not to take out the gun while grasping his pistol in the holster.
I was basically having a panic attack. They confiscated it and said it would not go on record.
Is it illegal to own a toy gun?
By the way I live in California, Bay Area.
You are a knucklehead who is basically lucky that nothing really bad happened to you.
I don't know the specific laws regarding "toy" or "replica" guns, but you know darn well that if the police see you with what they believe is a gun, they are going to act under the assumption that it's a real gun until they take it away from you and have a chance to look at it.
A homeless man here in Inglewood was recently killed by the police because someone saw him with what they weren't sure was a real gun or not. The police came and tried to get the homeless man, who was mentally ill, to put his hands up and stay still. The homeless guy, who as I said was mentally ill, reacted by making a motion the police claimed looked like he was going for the gun. They shot him and killed him. The "gun" was a toy gun, and a busted-up one at that.
A couple years ago, in one of the Hollywood-side cities, on or around Halloween there was a party going on at a private residence. One of the neighbors called the police to complain that the noise was going on after curfew (11:00 PM). The police responded to the call, and as they were walking up the driveway to the back area where the noise was going on, they saw a guy who was attending the party who had a replica gun as part of his costume. They told the guy to put his hands up and stay still. The guy thought the police were attendees at the party, in costume, and "drew" the "gun." The police shot him and he died.
Don't do a dumb-chit thing like walking around with a toy gun in your pocket, or brandishing a toy gun, or showing people a toy gun, or otherwise fooling around with a toy gun. That's stupid and dangerous. If you've gotta buy a toy gun, you keep it in the package it comes in until you get it home.
This is a case where it doesn't matter if you have the law on your side. You did something really stupid and you're lucky things weren't a whole lot worse than they were. Don't fool around with toy guns in public-- it can get you killed.
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