Penn Township Police Department have some concerns about a new trend. The trend involves kids or young adults playing with toy guns, known as Gel Blasters, similar in design to airsoft guns. The projectiles they shoot are 6–8 mm superabsorbent polymer water beads.

These weapons can sometimes look like real firearms and may provoke a negative encounter with police or citizens who may be armed. You could get shot! We would like to encourage kids and young adults not to display or fire these weapons from vehicles, public parks, school grounds or other public places.

Recently we have taken a few reports within Penn Township where these weapons have been fired at innocent persons from passing vehicles. We take public safety seriously and know that the public trusts that we will protect them. If an actor is caught firing these weapons at people who are not participating in a game or not being used for what they were designed for, they can be arrested, charged, fined and may face jail time.