We Use to use these as well, but one day a kid I knew turned up for a cops and robbers game, when I was 9 with real handguns, 6 of them. He gave me a smith and western, revolver to use. I though they were toys until, his brother come down a couple of hours later and seized them and said they were real guns. Their were no ammo in them, but I felt grownup and when I found out.