Sheriff's official warns of danger of realistic toy guns

URBANA – Champaign County sheriff's Lt. Ed Ogle held the two black .45-caliber handguns side by side.

"You tell the difference," he said, knowing that to even a trained eye, there is hardly any.

The difference is major, though.

One is a real Sig Sauer pistol designed to inflict serious injury or death. The other is a toy air gun designed to entertain with the firing of tiny plastic pellets.

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