AMMON - Just before 5:30 last night, two Hillcrest students were allegedly firing air-soft guns near Owen St.

A junior high football player was hit, apparently inadvertently while at practice, but not injured.

Some of the coaches and players saw what happened and called the police.

The students hid, but were found just across the street at Sandcreek Middle School.

They were cited by the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office with weapons on a school campus, a misdemeanor, and one was charged with felony assault for the shooting of the football player.

"It's a concern. Because weapons on campus, whether it's a look a-like weapon or a real weapon are a concern," says District 93 Health and Safety Coordinator, Guy Bliesner.

To see how similar the fake and real guns are, I went to Idaho Falls Police Departments training annex.

Lieutenant Royce Clements of the Idaho Falls Police Department showed me they're pretty much the same.

"This is your 9mm, this is the toy one, they pretty much look, feel, weigh, they're basically identical. So if you were in the field, and you saw one of these, what would you assume?" I asked Clements.

"That it's a gun. That it's a live weapon and we have to treat it as such," he replied.

"From a parent's stand point, it scares me that a kid could be out playing with an air soft weapon, have it mistaken for a real weapon and be shot," explains Bliesner.

Lieutenant Clements explained to me these very situations have happened before.

"We have to assume it's a real gun. We don't know that it's a toy until we get up close and examine it. And if it is a real gun, we're not gonna take the time to examine it," says Clements.

While it may be a scary thought for parents, officers, and even the people with the weapon, there's only one sure way to keep this from happening.

"Leave your BB guns, your air soft guns, your dart guns, your squirt guns, leave them home," says Bliesner.

District 93 is awaiting all information to come in. But the usual procedure is the students are suspended, pending a hearing with the board.