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'Gun' lad shot cop.


A TOY machine Toy Machine, also known as Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company, is a skateboarding company started by Ed Templeton in 1993. [1] The Toy Machine brand is housed under the Tum Yeto distribution company.  gun which looks like a real weapon was seized from a boy of 12 by police after an officer was shot.

Sean Hopkinson, a community support officer, was hit by a ball-bearing in the back of the head. He said: "I felt shock. The gun looked so realistic."

The fake pounds 19.99 gun, fired in Portsmouth, looks like a semi-automatic Heckler heck·le  
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 & Koch. The box warns it must not be fired at people or used by under-18s.

Insp Gerry Kiernan warned such guns put children at risk.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Aug 7, 2006
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