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A toy or a real gun?
The product in question is a Sky Marshal, a revolving toy gun that sells for about Y5,000 on e-commerce platforms. From the pictures posted by foreign media, the product is suspected to be made in China. On the reason for the recovery, the Japanese police agency said that in the network patrol found this commodity, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department through the detection found that this product after transformation, with the same function and real gun, was lethal to people. Key components of the product, such as the rotary magazine, are made of metal, and the magazine communicates with the barrel to fire a bullet. The police then worked with the platform to obtain the buyer's information and asked the local police to contact the buyer and seize the product.
There are loopholes in the supervision of cross-border goods with huge markets
The market size of toy guns in Japan stood at 9.2 billion yen in the fiscal 2021, according to market research firm Yano Economic Research Institute. The popularity of toy guns has grown in recent years with the popularity of survival games and has continued to grow during the pandemic.
Japan's Firearms Law sets the maximum power limit for "air guns" that use compressed air as the power to fire bullets, while "model guns" that are similar in structure to real guns need to be made of less strong materials and require the barrel to be closed, among other things. In the past, non-compliant toy guns made in Japan have been recovered by police, and the manager of the manufacturer involved has been arrested and charged. As a result, the Japanese toy industry has stricter self-regulatory regulations than the gun law, so there has not been a single recall of locally-made toy guns due to safety issues in recent years.
But the rise of cross-border e-commerce in recent years has led to an influx of toy guns made overseas, which do not comply with Japan's Gun Control Law and self-regulatory regulations. Experts also point out that the domestic supervision of these products is insufficient. These overseas "toy guns" contain metal parts and are classified as "quasi-air guns" or "imitation pistols" banned under Japan's Firearms Law. But the trade of such products on e-commerce platforms has never stopped.
Now, in the toy department of Amazon's search for the recovered toy gun, although not in the search results, there are still many realistic toy gun products, many in the name of the product even show "air gun "stainless steel" and so on.
Toy gun safety is a global pain
Toy guns have become a global pain due to physical simulation or damage caused by bullets. In addition to Japan being involved in this paper, China, the United States, Australia, and other countries have relevant requirements. Especially the United States.
Since Americans are free to own guns, there can be serious consequences if a replica toy gun is mistaken for a real gun. There was the case of a thief in Texas who was shot dead by police while holding a "replica gun", and the case of a 12-year-old child who was shot and killed by police after brandishing a replica gun in a park, which the police mistook for a real gun.
ASTM F963-17, the American toy standard, clearly lists the requirements for toy simulation guns, and many states in the United States have also issued corresponding regulations on the control of simulation guns. California, for example, requires toy guns not to be imitation guns but allows them to be designed to look significantly different from the real thing, so that consumers can easily identify them, or manufacturers face fines. New York state requires toy guns to be designed in black, blue, silver, or aluminum to avoid confusion with real guns.
Mozambique banned the import of imitation toy guns and made it illegal to sell them. The African island nation of Madagascar has also banned the sale of toy weapons.
Source: Chinese and foreign toynet comprehensive
The product in question is a Sky Marshal, a revolving toy gun that sells for about Y5,000 on e-commerce platforms. From the pictures posted by foreign media, the product is suspected to be made in China. On the reason for the recovery, the Japanese police agency said that in the network patrol found this commodity, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department through the detection found that this product after transformation, with the same function and real gun, was lethal to people. Key components of the product, such as the rotary magazine, are made of metal, and the magazine communicates with the barrel to fire a bullet. The police then worked with the platform to obtain the buyer's information and asked the local police to contact the buyer and seize the product.
There are loopholes in the supervision of cross-border goods with huge markets
The market size of toy guns in Japan stood at 9.2 billion yen in the fiscal 2021, according to market research firm Yano Economic Research Institute. The popularity of toy guns has grown in recent years with the popularity of survival games and has continued to grow during the pandemic.
Japan's Firearms Law sets the maximum power limit for "air guns" that use compressed air as the power to fire bullets, while "model guns" that are similar in structure to real guns need to be made of less strong materials and require the barrel to be closed, among other things. In the past, non-compliant toy guns made in Japan have been recovered by police, and the manager of the manufacturer involved has been arrested and charged. As a result, the Japanese toy industry has stricter self-regulatory regulations than the gun law, so there has not been a single recall of locally-made toy guns due to safety issues in recent years.
But the rise of cross-border e-commerce in recent years has led to an influx of toy guns made overseas, which do not comply with Japan's Gun Control Law and self-regulatory regulations. Experts also point out that the domestic supervision of these products is insufficient. These overseas "toy guns" contain metal parts and are classified as "quasi-air guns" or "imitation pistols" banned under Japan's Firearms Law. But the trade of such products on e-commerce platforms has never stopped.
Now, in the toy department of Amazon's search for the recovered toy gun, although not in the search results, there are still many realistic toy gun products, many in the name of the product even show "air gun "stainless steel" and so on.
Toy gun safety is a global pain
Toy guns have become a global pain due to physical simulation or damage caused by bullets. In addition to Japan being involved in this paper, China, the United States, Australia, and other countries have relevant requirements. Especially the United States.
Since Americans are free to own guns, there can be serious consequences if a replica toy gun is mistaken for a real gun. There was the case of a thief in Texas who was shot dead by police while holding a "replica gun", and the case of a 12-year-old child who was shot and killed by police after brandishing a replica gun in a park, which the police mistook for a real gun.
ASTM F963-17, the American toy standard, clearly lists the requirements for toy simulation guns, and many states in the United States have also issued corresponding regulations on the control of simulation guns. California, for example, requires toy guns not to be imitation guns but allows them to be designed to look significantly different from the real thing, so that consumers can easily identify them, or manufacturers face fines. New York state requires toy guns to be designed in black, blue, silver, or aluminum to avoid confusion with real guns.
Mozambique banned the import of imitation toy guns and made it illegal to sell them. The African island nation of Madagascar has also banned the sale of toy weapons.
Source: Chinese and foreign toynet comprehensive
