I've got one - a glock - I picked up in Korea back in 95. They were all over the place there back then. Every little kid between the ages of 5 and 10 were running all over the place with them. Mostly handguns, but some M-16's and MP5s. I still have mine, but it never leaves the house. Up here it is an offence to point a handgun at a person, and that includes replicas, even if they don't fire plastic BBs. Add that to the fact that mine doesn't have a bright red or orange tip and that I really don't want to get blown away by a cop who thinks it's real (you'd have to be within about 5 feet to tell its not), or have the cops called by a nervous neighbour I mainly keep mine in the closet. My wife got tired of finding little plastic BBs all over the place. I really really regret not having brought home my MP5 from Korea, but I was sure airport security would freak if they had x-rayed by luggage so I left it, but the Glock got through in the checked bag.

I don't know if you can get them in the states or not, but in Korea they had different coloured BBs, and I swear the green ones went farther and faster than the white or blue ones.

They loads of fun. My friends and I used to run through the back alleys of Seoul shooting each other in the early hours of the morning, and the reason I originally bought one was that all the kids in my apartment block had them and they used to shoot at me everyday on my way home from work. You should have seen their faces the day I came home and pulled the MP5 out of my bag and got a little revenge on them. They really don't even sting much through clothing unless you get hit from a few feet away, but I still wouldn't want to take one in the eye. I have seen some of these kids get some nasty welts off their friends with them.

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Jason Priest
1999 E430
1995 E420 - retired
1986 420SEL - retired