Toy guns to teach gun safety? Instructor Rob Pincus says no

By Jacki Billings

Toy guns and gun safety talks don’t mix, according to instructor Rob Pincus, who advocates range time rather than turning to toy guns to teach gun safety. (Photo: Jacki Billings)
Rob Pincus said he’s noticed a trend among gun owning parents, and it’s not one he’s excited about. The popular firearm instructor who occasionally makes waves within the firearm community for his opinions, explained that parents are turning to toy guns to teach gun safety and this tactic isn’t as harmless as they think.
In a post on social media, Pincus posited that the use of toy and water guns as means to engage in a gun safety talk with kids is often confusing for kids.
“Water pistols are expressly used to shoot water at other people, that’s what kids do with them. Older kids point Nerf guns, air soft and paintball guns at people all the time. Adults point simunitions and training guns at each other all the time,” Pincus told Guns.com. “If you start your kids off with ‘never point anything shaped like a gun at anyone ever,’ you set them and your integrity up for failure.”
Pincus said that for many parents the gun talk starts and ends with just reciting

Source: Guns.com