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Ha, ha. In the 1980s, I was serving at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. We worked six days a week. Saturdays were work days, but pretty much no one was there unless they were on duty or were directly involved in training the recruits.

A local flea market was selling battery operated water guns that looked just like UZIs and MAC10s. Needless to say a bunch of us officers and DIs bought them.

For the next several Saturdays, there were "drive-bys" and "hits." On one occasion, I was standing by the pull-up bars watching the recruits do pull-ups when a couple of DIs did a "drive-by" on me. Unknowing to us, a MP in a car was one road over and only saw the UZI. Lights and siren blazing he roared over. After he saw what were were doing, he asked for where we got them from, so he and his friends could buy some.

Even our battalion commander thought they were fun (He borrowed mine and did a "hit" on the battalion executive officer). Yes, the world has turned upside down.