Albany, N.Y. — New York's attorney general is suing Wal-Mart Stores, accusing the nation's largest retailer of selling toy guns that lack safety markings to distinguish them from real guns.
The toy guns have orange caps on their barrels, as required by federal law, but they don't have the nonremoveable orange stripes down the barrel's length that New York law requires, the lawsuit says.
Safety experts say the brightly colored markings help police officers distinguish toy guns from real weapons. The permanent stripes are important, they say, because the plastic barrel caps can fall off or be removed.
"It may be in North Dakota this isn't a problem, because they simply don't have this problem to deal with. We do," Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer said Thursday.
A message left with Wal-Mart corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., was not immediately returned Thursday.
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