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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – A voluntary recall was announced Monday on toy dart gun sets sold at the Family Dollar stores, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said.

The CPSC in cooperation with Family Dollar Stores Inc., of Charlotte, North Carolina, announced the voluntary recall of 1.8 million toy dart gun sets, due to an aspiration hazard, as they have received reports of two asphyxiation deaths involving a 9-year-old boy in Chicago, Illinois and a 10-year-old boy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The soft, pliable plastic toy dart, which measure just over one inch in length and has a small suction cup at one end with a diameter of about half an inch, can be inhaled into the throat and prevent the child from breathing, as some children tend to place their toys near their mouth.

The toy dart guns, imported by Henry Gordy International Inc., of Plainfield, New Jersey, were sold exclusively at Family Dollar stores from September 2005 through January 2009. Family Dollar is working cooperatively with CPSC to announce this recall because Henry Gordy International has refused to recall the toy dart gun sets.

The “Auto Fire” toy target set is sold with either an orange and yellow toy gun or a blue and yellow toy gun, eight orange darts and a small target with numbers from 1 to 20. The target board is black, yellow, red and green, and measures five inches in diameter. “Gordy Toy” for “Ages 8+” is printed on the packaging.

Consumers are being urged to take the toy target sets from children and discard them. They can also return the guns and darts to a Family Dollar store for a full refund.