Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s often entertained themselves by playing “cowboys and Indians” with cap guns and rubber arrows. In the 1970s and 1980s, air-powered rifles filled with ...

Nerf blasters are two things at once. First, and most obviously, they're fake firearms for flinging foam at your friends and foes. But secondly, they're also ingenious works of engineering, with ...