If Beavercreek police would have been able to identify the gun Crawford was carrying around Walmart as a BB gun, some said the 22-year-old may still be alive today.

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A 12-year-old's death and a deadly officer-involved shooting at a Beavercreek Walmart is prompting Tri-State lawmakers to call for changes to the way toy guns are made.A bill will be named after Fairfield native John Crawford, the man who was carrying a BB gun inside Walmart when he was shot and killed by police.Watch this story"This is a real automatic rifle. This is the rifle Mr. Crawford was carrying that day," special prosecutor Mark Piepmeier said.If Beavercreek police would have been able to identify the gun Crawford was carrying around Walmart as a BB gun, some said the 22-year-old may still be alive today."Human life is important and if we can work on laws that prevent those things, to make sure that we protect citizens, we protect law enforcement, I think we need to do that," said State Rep. Alicia Reece.In the next week, Reece plans on introducing the "John Crawford Law."It would require all BB guns, air rifles and air-soft guns sold in Ohio to be brightly colored or have a fluorescent marking on them."We've got to get back to the days when toys looked like toys and real guns looked like real guns," Reece said.Reece said Crawford's family presented the idea to her.On Monday, his father John Crawford Jr. released a statement."This legislation is necessary to make sure that a tragedy like the one that took my son John Crawford III's life never happens again," he said.But critics argue the law wouldn't be effective because anyone could paint the toy guns to make them look real."I think the reality is that John Crawford did not do anything criminal and unfortunately he's not with us today," Reece said.Reece said the bill was modeled after one in California.