The Toy-Pistol Law

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 32.

The Toy-Pistol Law

THERE is a statute in Iowa against the sale of toy pistols, and the penalty for the violation of the statute is a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than thirty days. The law is a good one. The number of accidents, many of them fatal ones, from the use of the toy pistol, is frightful. R. J. Farquharson, secretary of the Iowa State Board of Health, has written a letter on the toy-pistol subject, in which he advocates a rigid enforcement of the statute. He says the poisonous nature of the fulminating powder of which these explosives are composed, in case of wounds received by them, almost invariably results in tetanus (lock-jaw) and death.—Sel.