(Dallas, OR) -- Parents are being warned by Dallas police to talk to their kids about the dangers of airsoft guns. Officers responded to a situation in which calls came in about a teenager walking down a street with a pistol in his hand. What was most scary about the situation is that while the handgun turned out to be a fake, the encounter could have ended much worse. When officers arrived, they thought the boy was holding a real weapon, and when he was turned over to his parents they promised to have the fake gun destroyed.