Sheriff's official warns of danger of realistic toy guns
By Mary Schenk
Thursday August 14, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Champaign County sheriff's Lt. Ed Ogle compares a recently seized toy gun, top, with a real firearm Wednesday at the sheriff's office in Urbana.
URBANA – Champaign County sheriff's Lt. Ed Ogle held the two black .45-caliber handguns side by side.
"You tell the difference," he said, knowing that to even a trained eye, there is hardly any.
The difference is major, though.
One is a real Sig Sauer pistol designed to inflict serious injury or death. The other is a toy air gun designed to entertain with the firing of tiny plastic pellets.
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