 Light guns were suppressed for a time in the U.S. after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and its attendant controversy over video games and gun crime . Since the late 1980s light gun controllers have been generally manufactured to look like toys by painting them in bright colours . In Japan , which lacks the gun crime found in the U.S. and in which civilians cannot legally own guns , more realistic light guns are widely available . 
