Toy Guns: A big concern for police officers - February Sweeps story from WSBT.COM | Thumpy's 3D House of Airsoft™ @ Scoop.it | Scoop.it

"...(Ray) Wolfenbarger adds, “The airsoft guns are so realistic that it’s scary.”

And while pointing to one of the fake guns, he says, “I can tell you right now that if an individual pulled this on me, I’d shoot them in a heartbeat.”

In 2001, while working as a South Bend officer, Wolfenbarger was shot three times after trying to make a traffic stop.

“My shooting incident happened within 11 seconds – by the time I called out he had crashed, to the time I called out that I had been shot. That's how quick lives can be changed...."