Police in Canton, Massachusetts, are the latest to raise the alarm about the dangers of popular Orbeez pellet gun toys, which have been the subject of social media challenges. Orbeez are small, circular gel-based beads that can be shot from toy guns. They are marketed toward children, but police say the toys can easily be mistaken for a real gun,…
The Orbeez Challenge encourages participants to use these toy guns to shoot at people, cars, and homes with gel-based beads or similar
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