Walmart and other large retailers to stop selling realistic toy guns in New York

• Sears and Amazon join companies in $300,000 settlement with state
• State attorney general says police have mistaken toy guns for real ones

Several New York retailers, including Walmart, Sears and Amazon, have agreed to remove realistic toy guns from their shelves and pay $300,000 in penalties as part of a settlement with the state.

The state attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, announced on Monday that his office had found more than 6,400 toy guns sold from 2012 to 2014 that violated preexisting New York laws, which ban the sale of black, blue, silver, or aluminum toy guns. Instead, these must be brightly colored or translucent.