Reddit reviews Nerf N-Strike Elite Disruptor

Hasbro already thought of that. And theirs' is more disruptive!

Right now the Nerf Delta Trooper is $20.49 plus tax on Amazon, maybe slightly over budget, but it's got magazine compatibility and slam fire. A Mediator is also a springer with slamfire, but it's magazine feeds out from the side and it is pump action, and is sold without any attachments and a small magazine (6 rds). I would recommend going to Ross though, as they sell quite a few magfed Buzz Bee blasters that are cheaper (~$8) such as the Reaper and the new Revolution. I also found a Retaliator there (more recommended for modders, but since you do not plan to mod, the Delta Trooper is a better choice due to having slamfire) for about $16. The Nerf Alpha Trooper is also on clearance at Kohls for only $7.50, but there's $9 worth of shipping (at least for me) plus tax, so it really isn't that cheap.

The Strongarm (also available in fancy colors) and Disruptor are a decent plinkers for $10 ($13), but their more inexpensive alternatives are the Dart Zone Blitzfire Two Pack for $13, the Adventure Force Destructor for $7 and the Xshot Reflex 6 two pack (or one pack if you can find it) for $12 currently but $16 msrp. The Destructor and Reflex are the same things made by the same company but sold under two brands: their own and the Walmart one, under different colors.

For the Double-drum revolvers, there is the Nerf Flipfury, the Adventure Force Hyperspin, and the Xshot Xcess (note that the levers on the Hyperspin/Xcess just release the cylinders and don't completely rotate them, while the Flipfury's mechanism does completely swap the cylinders). The two larger blasters in the Dart Zone Commando Iconic 4 Turbo Dart Blasters are also multi-drum, but are the worst in the group and resemble the old-model Xshot Xcess.

A Dart Zone Magnum Superdrum is also only $20, and gives you a 40 shot cylinder with slam fire, but it's misgivings is that is it very loud because it doesn't have air restrictors, and the plastic feels a little bit on the cheaper side and is super creaky. The $25 Xshot Turbo Advance and Adventure Force Superdrum (again, same blasters different brand and color, Turbo Advance is usually $30 but it's on sale right now)

Some other $20 or under offerings from Adventure Force are the Double Trouble, Havoc Powerclip, and Quatroblast. The Double Trouble is a good flywheel blaster, but the Quatroblast is known to sometimes not rotate properly and the Powerclip uses proprietary clips but is a decent blaster otherwise.

This is accurate as far as I know as of October 1st, 2019 CE as of 5:52 UTC. Props to you if you read the whole darned thing.

I'd say buy a Nerf Hammershot It's pretty easy, it's a five shot revolver. It's got a hammer to cock instead of a slide, so you can prime and fire it one handed. Easy to still have a drink or hold on to something, or you can dual wield. It's pretty cheap, takes most any dart, and is a lot of fun to cock like a revolver.

There's also the Strongarm and the Disruptor. They're both six shot revolves, slide primed so harder to dual wield but they're solid and you won't have any problems running them, and they take pretty much any dart. If you ever played with a Maverick when you were younger, they're basically the modern equivalents.

EDIT: the Hammershot is actually on sale on Amazon. You can also grab them cheap at Walmart or Target.

My experience with garage sale and thrift store Nerf guns is that 9 out of 10 of them are jamming problems. That's a non-starter if you're not prepared to repair them.

I chose the N-Strike Elite Disruptor as the gun to buy in bulk so every kid has a shooter.

It's $10 on Target too, and this week Target has a sale: $10 off $50 purchase, $25 off $100 purchase of eligible toys and games. Nerf is eligible. So that's 7 six-shooters for $75.

I opted for a 400 pack of ZTOZZ darts. Maybe a hardcore Nerf fan can tell you why cheap knock-offs are bad, but I've noticed no difference in shooting accuracy or distance, and it's not as if you'll be that worried about these issues in a birthday party war.

A group in my area that hosts Nerf war events in community halls and school gyms makes structures for players to hide behind using U-Haul-style wardrobe boxes (big moving boxes) that are held together with binder clips (the boxes are clipped together flat, not kept in cube/box form). I can dig out a photo if you're interested.

N-Strike Elite Disruptor

Strongarm, Disruptor, or Hammershot: Great cheap pistols. Not great for modding though.
Retaliator: A basic mag-fed rifle with that's been modded by a lot of people.
Stryfe: Semi-auto battery powered mag fed flywheel blaster. Not great stock, but it has a huge modding community.
Stratohawk: Full auto flywheel blaster. Comes with a 25 round drum. Very usable out of the box.

You can't actually own the entire idea of the product. Not unless this is a unique product that you designed from the ground up.

What you own is the particular VARIATION of the product. The base, unmodified product that the manufacturer makes... that you do not own. And the manufacturer can sell that to someone else, with a different set of modifications, and that other entity owns that particular VARIATION of the product.

Who owns the basic unmodified product that the manufacturer makes? That depends.

• It could have been released freely into the public domain for mass production (China is quite lax on intellectual property)
  
• It could have in itself been a variation of another product, and legally it is considered distinct (otherwise it would be considered a counterfeit)
  
  Those two cases and other similar ones apply for most products you find on FBA.
  
  
• Or it could be entirely owned by a particular entity, be it the manufacturer or the seller, who gives out licenses to whomever they want for manufacturing/selling. This is not the case for most things that FBA sellers handle, but there are many examples of that in which the product is entirely trademarked. For example this Nerf gun.