I don't know the character Mike Teavee or from what book this excerpt comes from, but I'm guessing the following excerpt that was removed is designed to show that this character was a bit unhinged (or at least eccentric). (Taken from Pjama's thumbnail.)
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Mike Teavee himself had no less than eighteen toy pistols of various sizes hanging from belts around his body, and every now and again he would leap up into the air and fire off half a dozen rounds from one or another of these weapons.
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If you remove this passage, you've removed part of the descriptive "flavor" of the character. Over
TOY pistols (I assume that's the reason)?
Just stupid.