Gun resembling Lego toy removed from sale

[Fambo Number Mive]

It sounds like something from the Onion, but a US gun company has removed a "Block19" gun that looks like it is made out of Lego after Lego sent them a "cease and desist" letter:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57832053

Great way to make sure police think any child waving around a gun made out of Lego has a real gun, or for criminals to pretend their Glock is a toy gun. It's disgusting.

It is illegal in the US to produce a children's toy that precisely resembles a real gun, but the laws do not explicitly prevent manufacturers from making a gun that resembles a toy.

[Sebastian Cobb]

There used to be companies in Poland churning out non-official military Lego stuff because of Lego's pacifistic stance on not making military stuff.

[Captain Z]

Culper Precision

Why don't Americans have proper names

[king_tubby]

There used to be companies in Poland churning out non-official military Lego stuff because of Lego's pacifistic stance on not making military stuff.

Loads of this stuff is still being produced. There's also a Chinese knock off that exactly replicates Lego sets.

[Icehaven]

It is illegal in the US to produce a children's toy that precisely resembles a real gun, but the laws do not explicitly prevent manufacturers from making a gun that resembles a toy.

The ridiculous firewall on my work PC blocks any google search that mentions guns so I can't look it up myself but does this mean toy guns that look too real aren't allowed but technically it'd be legal to let a child play with an (unloaded) real gun, or are there age restrictions on handling them?