Ocular injuries from air pellet guns occur mainly in children and often require acute medical attention, a study by researchers in Denmark found. Jon Peiter Saunte, MD, and colleagues at the ...
Emergency room doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center say they're seeing an increase in eye injuries caused by the improper use of airsoft guns. Most airsoft guns fire small plastic pellets ...
BB guns, pellet guns, paintball guns and airsoft guns are marketed as toy or “starter” guns for children, but many are powerful enough for small animal hunting. Paintball guns have been popularized in ...
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — On Tuesday afternoon, April 23, three students at Granger High School were shot in a drive-by shooting by a non-lethal airsoft gun. Granite School District spokesperson Ben ...
Eye injuries from toy guns are on the rise. A Stanford University School of Medicine study found injuries in children from non-powder firearms, which includes paintball guns, airsoft guns, BB guns and ...
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BOSTON (CBS) -- 12-year-old Joshua Schermerhorn is lucky he can see anything out of his left eye after an accident with an Airsoft BB gun. "I thought I was dying," he said. "I was scared to death. It ...
The number of children who sustained eye injuries from “airsoft” guns grew by over 500% in the two years to 2012, according to a Stanford University study. Some 3,000 children suffered injuries to ...
ACCORD, N.Y. — Three “mischievous teenagers,” ages 12, 13 and 15, are facing assault, weapons and endangering charges after 15 other teens were shot with airsoft guns Saturday at the Rondout Valley RV ...