Otherwise Sweet Child + Nerf Guns = ?

Dear GOD! My parents would never have trusted me with something like that! Then again I only remember NERF guns shooting balls when I was little (of course that may be because that's all my parents would buy me). Then again my parents didn't trust me with anything "dangerous" including power wheels because they thought I would have chased the cats and dogs.

But even now looking at that gun I can't help but wonder if it's possible to get extensions for the ammo belt. And if there's any way to attach an ammo can to the side to hold the ammo.

It comes with a little side can to hold the ammo belt, actually, the picture on the box just has it without because it looks cooler that way.

And you can connect multiple of the belts together just changing a couple of the screws, but if you connect more than 2 together, it's too heavy for the gun to reliably move the ammo belt and it's much more prone to jamming. It's just a toy motor pulling the belt through, after all.

Yeah, it's a nice little gun.... You can also put a much more powerful motor into it (increasing the voltage to the motor also speeds it up, but increases the heat until it either burns out or melts the gun.... ) and a rechargable battery from a powersaw into the handle for the bigger motor.....

The scary thing is when you don't get that tip from college students and larpers, but eight year olds gutting a vaccume cleaner from a yard sale for the motor to really give his gun a kick....

Or when I saw a parent give his kid a nerf maverick, and within ten minutes the kid was at it with a screwdriver removing the air restrictors and jamming pennies behind the cocking spring....

I think nerf is now a goverment plot to churn out a real life Tony stark from one of these kids, honed from years of trying to shoot a dart so hard that it can take out that kid playing down the block, from the comfort of ones own room....

We had toy guns like that in the early 60s. They were fully automatic and looked like Desert Eagles do today. They had a magazine with 5 shots in it. The shells were plastic, with plastic bullets that came off when fired with a cap (greenie stick'um cap) behind them. You stuck the cap onto the bullet case, loaded the snap-in bullet itself and put it in the magazine. By doubling up on the caps you could make the bullets fire further, but the internal hammer had a problem firing more than two caps. So my brother and I simply took roll-type caps apart, scraped off the small amount of powder and collected it in a plastic film can. We then dimpled a piece of typing paper, poured in the collected cap powder and topped it off with double stick tape. When fired, we could hit someone across the street and up on their porch. Within about six feet, the projectile left a welt about like a paintball gun does today. It was the Johnny Eagle Magumba set. Also had a bolt-action rifle with it. They were supposed to use the cap for noise and the spring was supposed to launch the projectile about 15 feet, but in the sealed chamber of the Magumba pistol, the extra cap powder added a lot of velocity. It ejected the shell casings and everything. Then there was the "Johnny Seven One Man Army" gun which had a half-dozen functions including a grenade launcher.

Good old days.

Yes, the Nerf arms race began quite slowly, but surely it edged from the humble origins of the Nerf ball shooters and nerf bow and arrow sets to it's current incarnation. Yes, nerf has now OFFICALLY evolved to World War I Maxium machine gun technology. Soon the poor little nerf soldiers will be crossing the trenches and be cut down by a hail of foam darts. We're now currently awaiting the new Nerf Mustard Gas.