Consumer Group Calls For Hasbro To Stop Selling “Assault-Style” Nerf Guns

By John Crump

New York, New York –-(Ammoland.com)- The New York-based Empire State Consumer Project has asked the Hasbro Board of Directors to stop producing “assault-style” Nerf guns.

One of the Nerf blasters the group is targeting is the Ultra One. It is a drum fed toy gun holding 25 soft darts. Empire State Consumer Project Director Carol Chittenden thinks that parents that buy these toy guns are bad examples for their kids.

“It’s a matter of this being a very vulnerable consumer group. Children buy what they see, and we’re not sure this is driven by market demand for assault weapon toys by children or the industry creating the demand,” said Chittenden.

One of the main issues the group has with Hasbro is a commercial that shows a child’s family giving him bigger and bigger Nerf blasters until the child’s Grandmother shows up and gives him the Ultra One. The family is impressed with the Nerf gun and the commercial ends.

The commercial is comical, but the group thinks it is horrifying that Hasbro is using comedy to sell its “machine gun.” The consumer group plays on emotions by trying to guilt the toy company …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand