No word yet if hand and pastry-shaped guns will be allowed.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Organizers have voted to ban toy weapons from the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

The festival is from July 9-12 in State College, but also includes Youth Day on July 8, when kids 8 to 18 are invited to sell handmade arts and crafts on the sidewalks downtown.

But executive director Rick Bryanttells the Centre Daily Times that toy weapons — ranging from rubber band guns to Nerf weapons and light sabers, and anything that launches a projectile — will be banned.

Bryant says, “We live in especially violent times” and says banning “weapons” at the festival “is a step that we can take.”

Some folks have begun a petition to fight the changes, while others — including the father of a boy who makes ping pong ball catapults — say it’s too strict.