Banning Toy Guns in Hawaii

Hawaii lawmakers aren't fooling around when it comes to guns — even toy ones. State Rep. Scott Saiki has introduced a bill that would ban retailers from selling toy guns to minors.

If passed, it would become a crime to sell a toy gun to anybody under 18. Parents could still purchase them for their children.

The measure has stirred controversy among mainland pundits. Fox News' Greta Van Susteren and political pundit Tucker Carlson debated the proposal on Van Susteren's evening broadcast, "On the Record".

According to Real Clear Politics Carlson said of the measure: "There are a number of things wrong with this, some obvious, some not. First, it usurps rights that belong to parents, not the state. Parents get to choose what kind of toys their play with -- A. B, there's no evidence at all that the sale or use of toy guns by children leads to gun violence in later life. There's no study that affirms this. There's no longitudinal effort to look into this at all. This is clearly legislators acting out of their own unproved neuroses."

Read more about the ban on Hawaii News Now. A hearing on the measure is scheduled for Feb. 15 at 9:00 a.m. in conference room 229.

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