A hearing was held to review problems posed by realistic toy guns and consider a bill to require manufacturers of toy firearms to distinctively mark the toy firearms as toys and a bill to ban realistic toy guns from commerce. A consumer advocate compared real and toy versions of several guns to demonstrate the difficulty of distinguishing one from another. A representative of law enforcement officers described difficulties realistic toy guns present to police. The president of the Toy Manufacturers of America gave reasons for the organization's support for Senate Bill 1981, that calls for the use of blaze orange barrel plugs on toy guns to differentiate them from real weapons. An officer of the Daisy Manufacturing Company offered support for the Senate Bill. A gun collector urged that nonfiring antique replicas be excluded from the provisions of the bill. Testimony probed the question of the sufficiency of the Senate Bill's colorization requirement. Correspondence on the issues is included in the report. (RH)