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New York discount store was ordered to pay a $30,000 fine for stocking
toy guns that were deemed to be too realistic. Andrew Tilem, lawyer for
the odds-and-ends store called 99¢ Target, said the fine amounts to
$5,000 for each of the six toy sheriff sets put up for sale at the store
in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood. Tilem said the vender for the
toys, JMD All Star of New Jersey, told owner Jamal Ahmed the sets, which
included orange plastic-tipped toy guns, were legal for sale and one of
the store’s managers failed to inform the owner when a city inspector
wrote the store up for stocking the items. City regulations bar the sale
of realistic toy weapons. A spokeswoman for the city’s Consumer Affairs
department said the fine was appealed, but upheld. “Realistic-looking
imitation guns are illegal and dangerous, and just last week, a
15-year-old in Texas was killed while holding one of these guns,” she
said.
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