GRANITE CITY, Ill. (KMOV)- It sounds like something right out of a movie, but police in the metro east say criminals are taking toy guns and turning them into r...

GRANITE CITY, Ill. (KMOV)- It sounds like something right out of a movie, but police in the metro east say criminals are taking toy guns and turning them into real guns.

Two guns – a super soaker turned into a shot gun and a toy pistol turned into a .22 caliber revolver – were confiscated by police in Granite City on December 3, 2014.

While police won’t comment on specifics of the Granite City case, they do say modified weapons are a serious threat.