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  those plastic toy guns are really dangerous!!!!! well at least it gives jobs to cops who hunt down children with these dangerous plastic pistols.

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Tempe High locked down; fake gun found

Associated Press Dec. 6, 2005 02:40 PM

Tempe High School was locked down for two and a half hours Tuesday after a student carried a plastic gun in his pants to school. The student could be charged with interrupting an educational facility and school officials are handling disciplinary action.

Sgt. Dan Masters says six officers went to the school about 11 a.m. Students were locked into their classrooms and a search started.

Officers and school officials went into every room, searching every student and backpack. That's when a male who's a junior at the school handed over a plastic toy pistol.

Masters says nothing else was found and the school reopened at 1:30 p.m. .

The unidentified teen could face criminal charges for disrupting classes. Masters says he likely faces discipline or expulsion under the district's zero tolerance policy for weapons possession.