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Water guns have come a long way in the past 20 years.

"The kids were all told to bring water guns," his father said.

Practice with a water gun or something first maybe, and get the hang of it.

They got the water guns and had fun with them around the camp.

In the past, kids knew exactly what to expect when they went to the toy store for a new water gun.

Two little girls chase each other down the block with water guns.

"I was playing water guns on the lawn with my friends," he said.

Arm yourself with a water gun or bucket for the most fun.

Also, very high pressure water guns are used for precise cutting.

Chris almost dropped his water gun as she sprang forward.

He said he himself had not been carrying a water gun.

Said the friend, "He never shot the water gun at the coke or the smack."

The coach was shooting back with a water gun.

A water gun may be playful, but a real pistol isn't far behind.

Ollie and some others then started spraying them with water guns.

The pistol the costumed man carried was a water gun.

The boat then makes its way back to the station past two coin-operated water guns.

Traditionally, water guns have worked on the same principle as a spray bottle.

A powerful stream shot from his prototype, and he immediately realized that this could make a great water gun.

Throughout the history of water guns, designers have been wrestling with these problems to create a better pumping system.

I recited it to three children in my garden this week and they sprayed me with water guns.

Officials said the disturbance started when people began squirting strangers with the water guns.

And it is not to ban water guns, nor to regulate handguns.

Piston water guns have been produced for many years.

Amelia and her friends then stop by a service station and buy water guns.

He still had his gun but it was no more use to him than a child's water pistol.

He was the only boy who didn't have a water pistol.

"What are they going to go after next, water pistols?"

He seems to be from the military, and fights with a water pistol.

She felt stupid, like a kid with a water pistol.

Anyone else here would know it was a water pistol."

It was a child's water pistol made of transparent plastic.

It could be a water pistol for my kids - I'm always playing with those."

I felt no more than if he had squirted me with a water pistol.

Out of the bushes jumped a young man with a water pistol.

In his huge hands the nozzle looked like a child's water pistol.

The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash.

He lurched back in surprise, as if being shot with a water pistol.

He or she had and left behind a water pistol, fully loaded, on the sink.

Moments later, the officers discovered that the gun was a water pistol, the police said.

In retrospect, he said, it was nothing, no more than "taking a water pistol to a forest fire."

"If that stuff wakes, it'd be like trying to put out a forest fire with a water pistol."

The thing was a water pistol, albeit an extremely realistic one.

A mere water pistol, he assures us, for the following reasons.

A water pistol was the right weapon to use against an imaginary monster.

"I should have traded my gun in on a water pistol," Robin said.

"That's where this came "You shot them with a water pistol?"

A water pistol, a top and a bag of marbles had spilled on to the floor.

The best that bottled water will get you is a full water pistol.

There was a silly-looking yellow plastic water pistol in his hand.