European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse July 10 the stars and stripes tag s Movi toy gun from in their Choli Anuw cat i. Official disputes claim y gun lobby Trenton . Frey general Arthur spouted monday a gun lobby nunsent when he released Atis tics showing sporting gunwales have increased steadily uner new Jersey s Tough gun con Ftp said that in the two years Ince the Laws went into effect ales have attorney general said pre Minary crime statistics Snow rearm murders in new Jersey Refe 16 per cent below the Naonal average. Rifle and Shotgun murders were about half the National rate and assaults will uns less than two thirds of theatre he said. The gun Law bans the Sale firearms to persons convicted o Elonies and to alcoholics drug addicts and mental defectives. I think production will Bert and altered for those who make these toys the spokes Man for a Large toy manufacturer said but things probably will be Back to Normal after a while. Many kids want to have Atoy gun and most parents Are swayed by their children s the reaction against guns 0th real and toy stems from he continuing acts of violence across the nation most recently he assassination of sen. Robertf Kennedy. Sears Roebuck & co., wit More than 1,700 outlets has said it will the Sal and promotion of toy guns and similar toys of violence by eliminating it from the 1988 Christmas catalogue. And will not advertise or promote it in its retail stores this Christmas Sears said its action was in response to Public concern Over recent acts of Montgomery Ward & co. Said it is changing its advertising copy and artwork to make cer Tain it does t emphasize War or & Frank co., a Large department store Chain has discontinued Sale of All toy guns and other toys of violence an has cancelled All Christmas or Ders for such merchandise Large new York department store said it had Cut its order for toys of this Type by More than a third. A s p o k e s m a n for f. A. 0.schwarz said that while toy guns were a very Small percentage of the Large new York toy store s sales it had no plans to eliminate them. Chess is a War game the spokesman said. Would you eliminate it Jerome Fryer president of Gabriel industries inc., said there has been some cutback by some of our customers to Small to moderate Ted Erickson editor of a to Trade Magazine said i think the share of the toy Market once enjoyed by toy weapons is Down. That s partially because the Western theme does t have the zip it used to said a 1965 study showed that guns accounted for5 per cent of toy sales. He said estimated toy sales at retail amounted to $2.60 billion in 1967. Five per cent of that is $130 Mil lion. A spokesman for the to manufacturers of America inc., which represents about 325 to makers said member reports indicated the Sale of toy gun Shad declined since the study. He said the organization stand on toy guns and the like was contained in a statement is sued about a year after the assassination of president John . The statement said in part common experience shows the use or acceptance of Vio Lence among adults is not caused or contributed to by ear Lier play with toy guns and Mili tary toys but by sociological economic political and other on factors far removed from Chile Hood play and men disagree As to what effect if any toy gun shave on children. Or. Emanuel f. Hammer psychologist and former presi Dent of the new York society of clinical psychologists said pfc Felt toy guns serve As a kind of release for children if not taken too seriously by the parents. Catharsis of aggression is better released in play than accumulated to be released later on a real or. Frederick Wertham a psychiatrist who has written several books dealing with Vio Lence feels it s a very bad idea to give a child a toy gun. 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