User:PitPyro/sandbox

In certain countries around the world, there are restrictions on the access of projectile firing objects. NERF is a brand of plastic toy blasters that fire foam darts roughly the size of .50 Beowulf ammunition. Today The average velocity of these dart blasters in places like; the USA, Canada, UK, Singapore and other countries using the NERF brand foam darts is around 70 and for the NERF Rival line using NERF Rival brand 'High impact round' is 100 Feet Per Seconds on average (FPS). But certain places have firearm laws that make some projectile firing devices have a classification of a firearm, therefore a Firearms permit may be required. The nations of; The Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, The People's Republic of China have very strict gun control laws compared to places like the USA and Switzerland. In Australia According to the 'The Nation Firearms Agreement' Category A of firearms includes; Rimfire rifles (not semi-automatic), shotguns (not pump-action or semi-automatic), air rifles including semi-automatic, and paintball guns. The definition of an 'Air rifle'/ an 'air gun' (or airgun) is any kind of gun that launches projectiles pneumatically with compressed air or other gases that are pressurized mechanically without involving any chemical reactions, in contrast to a firearm, which pressurizes gases chemically via an exothermic oxidation. Since early NERF blasters were all used air to project the darts the blasters would've needed to be put in category A firearms classification, but at the time all the blasters were deemed to be toys as they were set under a certain safety freehold. However, in 2012 the first blasters from the 'N-Strike Elite' line - The NERF N-Strike Elite Retaliator and NERF N-Strike Elite Rampage, containing upgraded internals, such as stronger springs, leading to fast compression of air when released form a catch meant the blasters where now capable of achieving average FPS velocities of 70. In Australia, the 'safe' limit of FPS in an air projectile blaster/gun is 60FPS and under. Though currently there is no quote form Hasbro of the Australian government, data from studying the FPS of NERF blasters, from sources such as Coop772 found that the NERF Modulus IonFire had an average FPS of 58 and Nerf Mega Hotshock had an average of 54FPS - Both of these blasters where released in Australia form retailers such as Target, Big W, Kmart, Toys R Us and others WITH the orange trigger. Do keep in mind that this is not the most definitive data, but it is currently the most we have. This FPS safety is the reason Australia has these grey trigger blasters, the grey trigger is an indicator of the weaker power of the blaster, because if there was no grey trigger the only way to tell the difference between a blaster would have to be to open it up and/or test it FPS. This also is the reason that in general, even put through currency exchange rates between USD and AUD as an example, the grey trigger blasters tend to be more expensive for three main reasons 1: On spring blasters (Springers), a different spring must be bought, leading to a legal division of the product, and since places like AUS and NZ have lesser population the USA and Canada (when combined) and in China, were there is little regulation of patterned copywrite means the price of the unit must be increased in the expected forecast of low sales due to smaller market and a market that can legally copy your creation and sell it without any legal issues. 2: On flywheel blasters (flywheelers) Hasbro either has to buy different motors (already described with the spring division in point 1) or buy extra resistors costing extra price to produce a unit, substantially driving the unit price up for the extra resources of land, and labour and capital used to the addition of some resistors. 3: In very rare cases, the shell of the blaster may require a new mould to provided or take away space for added or removed components in the blaster. Injection moulds are very expensive, and they can be around hundreds of thousands of dollars for one.

This does mean on a legal technicality if you live in Australia it is possible that if you modify a blaster to shoot than more than 60FPS (in air blasters, possibly in electronic blaster, though electronic firing mechanisms are not described in the nation firearms agreement as of the 03/11/2018, which has led to the rise of electronic 'gel ball blasters' being imported through Australia customs) you may be breaking the law by owning an air blaster which falls under category A of the NFA without a license.

One last note/message: No matter where you live never paint the tips of any type of toy blasters black or body majority black or dark colours that can appear to be firearms from a distance or up close. Also, if you live in Victoria (AUS) you are subjected to the Victoria Imitation Firearms act -

As a general rule, toy firearms are considered items that resemble firearms, but cannot reasonably be mistaken as working firearms by the general public, and do not have the functionality of working firearms. As such, toy firearms can be lawfully possessed by anyone within the State of Victoria. - Victoria Police (2014)