TOY FIREARMS
Paralegal student
Andrew Francis
PLST 230
January, 20,2024
There are multiple elements presented in statute section 18.2-284 provided on the selling or
giving of toy firearms. The statue that has been given for this assignment, gives very specific
items that have to be met. Anyone who breaks this law is to be charged with a class four
misdemeanor. The first item of this law we will talk about is how a person is prohibited from
obtaining a "toy firearm".
The ways a person is prohibited from obtaining a "toy firearm" are, that a person may not "sell,
barter, exchange, furnish, or dispose of by purchase, gift or in any other manner" a toy firearm.
The second item that we will discuss, specifies what kinds of toy firearms are prohibited.
These are "any toy gun, pistol, rifle or another toy firearm". This element has told all of us
exactly what is classified to be a toy gun and that's it is prohibited.
The third item we will be discussing is the kinds of ammunition that are prohibited from
being used, the presence of which makes any of the previously mentioned items prohibited, "if
the same shall, by the action of an explosion of a combustible material, discharge blank or ball
charges."
Lastly, the statute tells us that the sale of any item that qualifies as a "cap pistol" is not to
be prevented.
Under this statute, the sale of the previously listed toy firearms would be prohibited. It meets the
requirements of the first element in that it is a toy firearm that is for sale. It meets the second
element simply by being a front firing. So after reviewing and breaking each part of this statue
