Many parents don’t like guns—real ones or toys. So even though we may know that playing with pretend guns is developmentally normal, our instinct whenever our kids start building guns out of LEGO ...

A reader is frustrated by her children’s gravitation toward the toy guns a family brings to play with. By Philip Galanes I bring my children to our neighborhood playground every afternoon. It’s a ...

When the police swarmed into San Cheng’s apartment in Beijing late at night and accused him of illegally buying guns, he was sure it was a mix-up. True, he had bought dozens of toy guns on Taobao, the ...