Equation
Lieutenant General
The ol' Banana in the pocket routine. Walk into a Store point a fake gun and demand the money. because they lack the orange tip found on American market models a unsuspecting individual thinks it's the real deal. and Because the CCP is paranoid about guns The Police send in the swat team using real guns to seize fake guns.
Having been hit with a plethora of BB's and ball barrings It Hurts but is hardly lethal.
Paranoid perhaps, but at least they don't have a gun shootings problems like here in America.