Late to the party here, and not 5th but nearby in MO.
It will largely depend on the show/community you’re in. For example, I tend to carry very realistic prop weapons at our big show that we have a booth at, but we load them in preshow and drop them before leaving the booth.
Good alternatives for this are the brightly colored Adventure Force stuff or even Nerf.
I wrote a whole primer on props a while back.
Prop Weapons, A to Z from fake shooty to fake stabby and everything between