Weeks after a New York police officer shot and killed a teenager carrying a toy gun, Toys `R' Us has decided to stop selling realistic-looking toy firearms.
"It is absolute fact," Toys `R' Us spokeswoman Carol Fuller said Friday, responding to a Wall Street Journal report on the decision. She said the company, the world's largest toy retailer, would have more to say later in the
day. Other retailers already have pulled some toy guns off shelves or are considering the move, the Journal said.
Bradlees Inc. will discontinue sales of several types of guns before Christmas, said company spokeswoman Aileen Gorman.
KayBee Toys Inc. also has decided to reduce its inventory of toy guns, according to the Journal, which offered no details.
Last month, a 13-year-old boy was fatally shot in the stairwell of a housing project by an officer who mistook his toy gun for the real thing.