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A mother has voiced her concerns after her 13-year-old son was accosted by armed police while he and a friend played with a plastic Nerf gun in a park. Annette, from Hove, Sussex, said her son was “still in shock” and had difficulty sleeping following the incident. She said two plainclothes officers approached the boys, screaming “get down, get down”, before realising they were carrying a toy. Sussex Police confirmed it had received a report of young people with a suspected firearm in the same area on Saturday evening.
Toy guns should only be used in private, with permission from the landowner, according to Sussex Police, who added that the police’s response was stood down once the officers had established that the boys were simply “playing with a toy gun”. Officers provided advice to both the children and their parent.
The mother explained that she was initially frightened by the situation, observing four police cars and around eight officers present when she arrived on the scene. “It looked a bit like an American action movie. It was too much,” she said.
The incident highlights the conflicting views on toy guns given their physical similarity to real weapons. The sale of toy guns was temporarily banned after the 1993 murder of toddler Jamie Bulger, and some countries have introduced stricter controls on their use. In 2020, a nine-year-old boy was suspended from school after a teacher claimed he had threatened classmates with a toy Nerf gun during a lesson held remotely
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