Although the criminal charges are the same, more youths are opting for pellet and BB guns as their weapons of choice in armed robberies, a preference police say is motivated mostly by accessibility.

Toy guns are part of the childhood memories of many Americans. But there's a style of fake guns that police say are indistinguishable from the real ones. And that makes them dangerous. BB guns are ...

Police recovered a wide variety of the weapons in the fatal shootings, but almost all had one thing in common: They were highly realistic copies of firearms. Of those, 53 were pneumatic BB or pellet ...