Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-35070608-20180727225200/@comment-27306930-20180728000335

(face palm)  Dry firing a stock EAT does not damage it. The Air Restrictor prevents the plunger from bottoming out in the plunger tube and causing any damage. These are old wive's tales. Dry fire away my friend !

I can tell you from first hand experence that dry firing a modded EAT is a BAD thing. If you remove the AR and upgrade the spring, dry firing can blow the end off your plunger tube. Somewhere on this wiki I have a thread dedicated to addressing this very topic.

Bottom line, dry firing stock blasters produced since 2010 is not a problem. Anyone who says differently simply doesn't understand how Nerf blasters actually work. And apparently, there are a lot of 'em 😉