Guns .... brightly coloured and "fun" or realistic??

[nappyaddict]

Firstly do you allow your children to have toy guns?

Do you prefer fun ones that are obviously toys like nerf guns

Or do you think they shouldn't be make to look fun and appealing to little children and should look more like the real thing like this?

Pew pew!

I don't get it? Pew pew?

Have you never played guns? That's a classic kiddie gun sound!

Peeow!

I think they are vile.

Nerftastic all the way round here........

As fun as nerf looks, I like my finger gun. I'm always packing heat that way

Pew pew!

NOT AT THE FACE!!!!

No guns of any sort allowed at NorksTowers
Play fighting is still fighting and it goes pear shaped VERY quickly :(

Nerf guns, brightly coloured water pistols etc are fine imo. They are not mimicking lethal weapons. They are used for firing projectiles into the air, or getting people wet, not pretending to kill them.

Realistic toy guns are disgusting. Childhood is about practising skills for adulthood, and I really don't want my DCs to acquire the skill of killing people or animals.

In the park once a little shit boy came up and pretended to shoot my newborn baby at point blank range with his toy gun. I felt physically sick at this. How can they be considered an appropriate toy?

Ow! Dons goggles and leaps into Nerf Shelter.

I don't much like toy guns, but then my eldest is only just 7.

I don't allow realistic ones, but anything that is brightly coloured and therefore obviously a toy is ok. I remember feeling very odd when ds's friend came round with a realistic looking cap gun and he put it to his head and pretended to shoot himself.

But I do think that if children want to play shooting games at each other, they will use anything - sticks, other toys, their fingers - so while I don't like it and am surprised that I feel so strongly about it, I do allow it (but with the non realistic type toys)

DH looks like Bono in the Nerf goggles.

Has he found what he's looking for yet?

Nerf Wars generally Silly. He's the biggest daft kid of the lot.

for when you absolutely positively gotta kill every motherfucker in the room

I don't like toy guns, but I'm much happier with nerf guns or water pistols than I would be with realistic guns. The latter would be a total no-no for me.

Running up and down the stairs during Nerf Wars is one of the best forms of exercise there is.

That knitted gun is v scary Silly.

something for the Xmas list...

Nerf all the way.
IME even if you try and ban them you will find that they go to friends' houses and play with them anyway!

nerfzooka!

I don't like guns and have even gone off the idea of water pistols since seeing my then 15 mo in the bath with the water pistol aimed into his mouth russian roulette style. It turned me cold actually. Though i am realistic enough to know that he'll play with water pistols on hot sunny days in future years. I won't be encouraging him to have guns of the 'pew pew' kind though. If he plays with them elsewhere then fine - what i don't know won't kill me. But they won't be allowed in my house.