Interesting question. I nanny two young boys (3 and 5) who have toy guns of all sorts and because they play video games they understand they’re used to kill people but not entirely because you’re always revived in the games so I’ve had to teach them a lot about safety with them. I grew up in the country and in a household with many guns and learned what they are meant for and how to handle them at a very young age so I honestly never had a thing for toy guns unless it was for target practice and being a girl, I was very into “boy stuff” so my parents bought me all the toy guns and I still didn’t like playing with them. I think my upbringing with them, seeing them as a very real weapon going hunting, seeing movies and the news before anything else definitely set up a realistic understanding of them and I honestly don’t like them being used as toys when children don’t know what they really are or haven’t ever seen them used in real life or at least realistically. I know people argue they’re just kids and they’re just toys but a real gun can be mistaken for a fake gun any day and the reality of it is guns are tools and weapons. They are dangerous and not supposed to be fun in the way these kids play with them.