Intelligent air restrictor

An intelligent air restrictor or smart air restrictor is an internal component found in most modern Nerf blasters.

Details
Intelligent air restrictors are a variant of the air restrictor component found on most blasters. They can be found in many modern front-loading Nerf blasters. While blasters with intelligent air restrictors have an order in which a blaster will fire darts when it is fully loaded, they allow the blaster to fire darts loaded in any barrel when it is not fully loaded. Because of the intelligent air restrictor system, it can detect what barrels are loaded and which are not, and will skip any unloaded barrels to the next available dart to fire.

More than one dart can be fired at a time by not loading darts into blasters properly. If darts are not loaded in all the way, the air restrictor system will not recognize them. If it does not recognize any loaded darts, the blaster will discharge air out of every barrel when it is fired.

Worn darts may not have enough friction to be seated properly in the chamber, which may cause the spring of the air restrictor to push out the dart, and not be able to detect it.

History
The first blaster to feature an intelligent air restrictor was the Rough Cut 2x4 in 2013.

List of blasters with intelligent air restrictors

 * 4Victory
 * Blazefire
 * Brainsaw
 * Bulldog
 * CornerSight
 * Crosscut
 * Crossfire Bow
 * Dauntless
 * Doublestrike
 * Dual-Strike
 * Duet
 * Fang QS-4
 * Grip Blaster
 * Imperial Death Trooper Blaster
 * Imperial Death Trooper Deluxe Blaster
 * Lumanate
 * Mediator Stock blaster
 * Messenger
 * Mega Dart Barrel Extension
 * Mega ThunderBow
 * Persuader
 * Quadrot
 * Ravager
 * Rough Cut 2x4
 * Secret Shot
 * Scravenger shoulder stock blaster
 * SplitStrike
 * Strongheart Bow
 * Triad EX-3
 * Tri-Break
 * Tiger DB-2
 * Trio TD-3
 * Voidcaster
 * Warden DB-8

Trivia

 * Because Hasbro patented this air restrictor design, Nerf is the only brand that features blasters with this type of air restrictor.