Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20190528220231/@comment-24743922-20190528234008

I stick with Jet here. "Squirt gun" is literally the name of the type of toy which squirts mostly harmless streams of water. In places like ISoaker, they don't call them "guns". They use "water gun" or "soaker". Like the BB Gun. When you say it, people go straight to their childhood memories of shooting tin cans with pellets.

The same goes to Nail Gun. When you say it, it does not remind people of real guns. People think of the tool, not of a real steel firearm.

We could say "Nerf gun", but previous uses of the terminology almost got Nerf banned from Brazil. And I ain't joking. That's why I insist so much on it, you know? They all end up cutting of the "Nerf" part.

And we would hate it, right?