Two stories to back up what everyone is saying. First story: My freshman year of HS me and some buddies (I think they're were about 8 of us) were having a sleep over to celebrate someone's b-day. Just after it was dark, we broke out the springer pistols and decided to play in and around his yard. We had played for about 30 min. when a guy came out with a drawn desert eagle and quietly told two of the guys to sit down. Well, to make the story short, the rest of us had no idea this was happening and basically the guy just talked to my two buddies about playing with fake weapons in an alley at night. Second story: 6 of us were out playing in the wash, outside of city limits. We had permission from the property owner so no problems there. Problem is, someone saw us and called the sheriff's dept., describing us as (and i quote) "terrorists with automatic weapons and protective face armor" (what the heck is face armor?). Anyway 6 cops and a SWAT team show up - the SWAT team in their APC (by the way the response time was still 30 min. lol). They come at us with weapons drawn yelling at us to "get down!" Of course we do exactly what they say. Three of us (the ones wearing paintball masks) were handcuffed (thats all the hand-cuffs they had - just one of many things I could point out that they did very wrong). We weren't doing a thing wrong, so it all came out OK. From now on, though, I always call the sheriff's dept. and let them know when and where we'll be playing.