Toy water gun for rapid firing of individual stream segments or bursts of water

A method of operating a water gun, comprising:

• providing a water gun including a housing, a supply tank connected to the housing, a pump configured to supply water from the supply tank under pressure to a nozzle, a nozzle recovery chamber in which at least a nozzle opening of the nozzle is located that is directed to discharge water through the nozzle recovery chamber along a discharge axis, and a discharge opening located in a wall of the nozzle recovery chamber, the discharge opening is aligned with the discharge axis so that the water is adapted to be discharged along the discharge axis from the water gun, and a stream interrupter located in the nozzle recovery chamber between the nozzle opening and the discharge opening that is configured to periodically interrupt a flow of water from the nozzle along the discharge axis to the discharge opening, and a check valve located in a fluid path between the nozzle recovery chamber and the supply tank;
• a user placing water in the supply tank;
• the user actuating the pump, and the stream interrupter periodically interrupting a flow of water from the nozzle along the discharge axis to the discharge opening as the pump is actuated such that periodic bursts of water are delivered from the discharge opening.