VA mom & HS teacher…we have nerf guns, I had them growing up. My son doesn’t know how to shoot them (he’s 2.5), he just likes to bang them together bc they make a lot of noise, but they’re his dad’s. I don’t feel that nerf guns are appropriate toys to have at school, because why would we want to encourage kids to shoot at each other or targets or whatever? I think the larger issue is that people are not storing actual guns properly and also not teaching kids the difference between toys & weapons