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Walt Disney World Defends Right to Sell Toy Guns.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2002
By Robert Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 28--Guns -- of the toy variety -- are in ready supply at Walt Disney World more than a year after Disneyland in California stopped selling them or featuring them in that theme park's attractions.
Rows of $16 wooden muskets and $10 antique-style pistols are popular souvenirs in both the Magic Kingdom's Frontierland and the park's Pirates of the Caribbean store. Six-shooters reminiscent of the one used by "Texas" John Slaughter, a 1950s Disney television hero played by Tom Tryon, are offered in red holsters.
In this post-Sept. 11 era of heightened security that includes searches for possible weapons in guests' bags, the Magic Kingdom -- Disney World's...
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