Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38684270-20190319151844/@comment-27306930-20190319224340

FLATtheFISH wrote: I'm sure deep down, Nerf doesn't mind mods, but they've gotta mention how they don't approve of it on the blaster's packaging because of safety reasons. It has much more to do with liability reasons than safety reasons. If Hasbro formally acknowledged the modding community, then by extension they are acknowledging that their blasters are being used for potentially unsafe activities, and therefore they would bear some responsibility for doing something about it. Furthermore, if they knew something needed to be done about it, and didn't, that's called negligence. And that's how lawyers sue the pants off big companies by proving negligence. But as far as the rest of your reasoning, I agree.

That being said, Hasbro has definitely given a subtle nod to the modding community. They could have made blasters harder to open and much harder to mod. There was a minor uproar a few years back when thermobonding and epoxy welds started showing up in blasters. But they returned to their roots and kept the shell assemblies relatively simple, and they continue to use screws rather than glue. They seem to know who their fans are 😉