These Democratic Senators are calling on Wilbur Ross to update 30-year-old regulations on toy guns

The senators wrote that it's 'past due time' to update the 1989-era regulations on toy guns.

Three Democratic U.S. Senators are calling on the Commerce Department to more effectively regulate look-alike firearms, a category that encompasses toy guns and other products whose appearance imitates a real weapon.

In a letter to the Commerce Department and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Monday, Senators Bob Menendez, Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal wrote that it is"past due time" to update the department's toy gun regulations, which date back to 1989.According to an analysis of, 153 people holding toy guns have been killed by police since 2015, a figure noted by the senators in their letter.

A potentially troublesome development at the intersection of toys and firearms has received less public attention, but is being flagged by the senators as an area of concern for federal regulators: gunmakers licensing their designs to toy companies.

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