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Nope. YANBU. I hate toy weapons.

My son has a gun that fires foam bullets. He loves it and I have no issue with him having one.

ds does not have any

so he makes his own from lego

we decided no toy guns for our son, so any pencil or twig did him, taking something with ammo to a playpark isnt on though, not all children enjoy rough and tumble

Neither of my DC have ever had toy guns, and yes, as above, they make them out of sticklebricks, Lego and megabloks. It still filters in from somewhere.

It doesn't really bother me to be honest.

I'm not that bothered either.

I didn't have one (I'm a female) but I made one out of my Weebles' swing! I 'shot' my older sister a lot, which pissed her off

I don't want to buy one for DS. Bubble guns etc = fine, guns that look like guns = fuck no.

Doesn't bother me. My children have always had swords, disc shooters, nerfs etc. Don't see the problem.

we lived on a garrison...where my dc dad was an armed guard on the gate.....why shouldn't they play?

My children love playing Nerf wars. They run around, they hide, they shoot each other. It's literally hours and hours of fun.

I'm really not that bothered. In fact, DH and I join in!

If they don't have them they'll use their imagination, even with pointy fingers.
And that's boys and girls, I'm old but was brought up with little pistols with caps and we played detectives or cowboys people.
I assure you I'm a lovely peaceful human being.

do you feel the same way about naice wooden archery sets op?

Can't beat a good nerf battle with the kids

My DS loves his toy guns.....doesn't mean he is going to grow up and be a gun wielding maniac. It's what little boys like, why shouldn't they play with them? YABU!

and just the weather for water guns!!

When ds1 was little I tried to have a no toy gun rule...another three boys later it has not worked.

Of they don't have toy guns they use sticks or make them out of Lego etc, they love Nerf guns and have a potato gun.

They know not to point them at people and its just play the same,e as their toy swords' light sabers and bow and arrow.

I was all anti-guns, then, as Freudian said, mine made them from lego, or as a last resort, out of their fingers (with accompanying 'bang bang' noises)...

Mine don't have toy guns and even DS1, who is pretty inventive with anything he finds, doesn't make them.

Then again, he doesn't watch anything with guns in on TV. He knows what they are, of course, but doesn't see any entertainment value in them.

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For me personally
Guns that look like guns= not OK (people still gave them to DS though, ex mil

Nerfs, space guns, water pistols, bubble guns= OK

I loved disc shooters even more than ds did.

but they are still gun shaped!!!

yep, we started off as idealistic parents with a no gun policy. 7 years later and we have an armoury cupboard

they blummin love it and it doesn't bother me.