Don't see Khmer kids playing with guns, very rarely I have seen but low key.
Thinking about it the majority of the KR was made up of boy soldiers, they were not playing with toy guns.

I can now see what the problem is and why my life has been messed up since I was a kid when our Christmas presents were mixed up and I got a rag doll while my sister got a toy gun.

Water guns are wonderful toys.
As are drums and police whistles.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 5:46 pm My kid always played with toy guns growing up, he had a lot of Nerf guns, but they look like obvious toys. Sometimes he'd get more realistic ones from the corner shops that fire little pellets. His grandmother wasn't too keen on these as she thought the cops might shoot him or something. Replica airsoft type guns were banned here about 15 years ago. The one in the OP could get you arrested or shot.

About 15 years back, my mate (in the UK) bought his 2 sons (aged about 10 & 12 years old) airsoft pistols and they were both mucking about shooting at each other with them in a field behind his house. Some member of the public saw them, assumed they must be about to carry out a mass shooting or a terrorist attack and reported to the police as such. An armed response unit rocked up, screamed at his kids to “drop the weapons” manhandled the kids into a police vehicle and took them home with the intention of laying down the law to their parents about the dangers of playing with weapons ( the main one being the risk of being shot by an over zealous and excessive police response) and confiscating the airsoft pistols.
My mate was livid with the police, told them them they were massively overreacting, that there was no way they were confiscating his kids toys, and basically told them to go and fuck off, which they did.
If my mate hadn’t stood up to them, the police would have taken the pistols, gone back to the station and written up a nice juicy report about how a ‘firearms incident’ had been dealt with and the firearms seized and later destroyed.
FTR, British law considers air pistols and such as firearms, and when they boast about firearm crime convictions statistics, most of the ‘firearms related crimes’ solved involve air weapons and toys, the crime’s involving sawn off shotguns and real firearms, not so much

I remember dressing up as the lone ranger, it was cowboys and Indians in my childhood.
Both my kids never had guns but killed thousands more people than I ever did playing computer games.

Harmonicas and clicker crickets also make excellent gifts for the children of your friends.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 11:47 am
Remember these?

I prefer the ones with the paper roll