When we get to be in the Buck Rogers 25th Century where handheld laser guns are the norm and they can literally ZAP you lol, fair enough to call them
weapons.
But you have to spend hundreds of dollars to ilegally import a laser pointer that after a few minutes, MIGHT pop a balloon or burn a hole in a piece
of paper.
This is what we call in the UK, making a mountain out of a molehill.