Guns with bright colors and cute characters. It's prompting one Bay Area police department to sound the alarm about firearms deliberately made to look like toys, putting children and police ...

Shizuoka Prefectural Police have warned that toy guns circulating as crane games machine prizes in the region are potentially ...

According to the NPA, some 16,000 Real Gimmick Mini Revolvers were imported to Japan from China and used as prizes in crane games. The brightly colored pistols came with a set of eight plastic bullets ...

These guns are all hand-made replicas of real guns…only they’re shrunken and miniaturized 4 to 4.5 times the regular size. Alexander Perfiliev, the master minigunmaker, has been building these ...

The Real Gimmick Mini was found by the Hyogo Prefectural Police to have been one such gun, when they discovered one while investigating a home on a separate matter. The gun was confirmed to be ...