U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York is urging online retailers to stop selling the case, and police are asking consumers not to buy it. Schumer says it lacks a required orange marking that identifies it as harmless.

He says advertisements indicate the case can be displayed in a pocket, as though it’s a real weapon.

He called the gun-shaped case a “disaster waiting to happen.”

Amazon.com told The New York Times on Tuesday that the item is no longer listed on its site.

The case can also be used with a Russian roulette app that transforms the phone’s screen into the image of a gun barrel.



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