The selections include bugle calls, fife and drum numbers and the sounds of actual firearms.

Some countries have specific restrictions, such as maximum muzzle velocity and "unrealistic" colouring to distinguish them from actual firearms.

The measure is to strengthen an existing law intended to keep toy guns from being mistaken for actual firearms.

The original water guns were made of metal and fashioned after actual firearms.

In these instances, the devices that represent actual firearms or hypothetical future evolution of current firearms are represented.

Very few had actual firearms, while nearly all were armed with daggers, machetes, and spears.

Legal requirements are set on airsoft model manufacturers to prevent any possibility of a replica firearms being converted into an actual firearm.

Gunplay: The practice of including actual (or simulated) firearms into a scene.

Likewise, in countries with gun laws heavily restricting the ownership and use of actual firearms, Airsoft guns often are used instead for "shooting range" practice.

Criminals use such weapons both to intimidate due to their appearance, and as actual firearms.