OK, you so-called "experts"

Military and weapons nuts, here's your challenge:

Same picture, two captions.

NOTE: "Stringer" means the picture was taken by a paid photographer, not a staff photographer

QUESTION: Is the item in the picture really a toy?

CAPTION 1 - REUTERS
A masked Palestinian boy holds a toy gun during a rally in support of the Palestinian Hamas government in the West bank city of Hebron, October 27, 2006. (Stringer/Reuters)

CAPTION 2 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
A boy wears a face mask made from an Islamic flag and holds an toy rifle with live rounds attached to it, as he poses for the photographers, during a rally of thousands of Hamas supporters in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Friday Oct. 27, 2006.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Ready for the picture?