abstract
| - Most firing triggers feature the traditional orange Nerf color. More modern firing triggers have slight treads on it for gripping and a few rectangular shaped holes for aesthetics. It has a small spring right behind the trigger that causes it to come back forward every time it is pressed. Pressing the firing trigger most commonly does one of the following: 1) Releases a catch that holds back the plunger on a charged blaster, allowing the spring to shove the plunger forward and compress air that propels the dart out of the barrel. The Recon, Jolt, Triad, and Rebelle Sweet Revenge are some examples. 2) In most purely mechanical Vortex-line disk launchers, it releases a catch that holds a torsion spring under tension. The spring powers a launching arm that flings the disk forward and out of the barrel. The Vigilon and Praxis are examples of this style. A very few Vortex blasters (such as the Richocet and Ripshot) fire when the trigger releases a catch that holds back compression springs. 3) Opens an air valve to release pressurized air from an air tank or air bladder into the barrel to launch the dart. The Rapid Fire, Hornet, Secret Strike, and Magstrike are some examples. 4) In the case of a modern electronic flywheel blaster, the trigger actuates a dart-pusher, either purely mechanical or motorized, which slides a dart between the spinning flywheels for launch. NOTE: Other very uncommon trigger mechanisms also exist. The Stampede trigger actuates a motorized plunger system. Triggers on a Gyro Strike (early motorized flywheel) or Ripsaw (manually-powered flywheel), for example, release gravity-fed ammunition to fall into the flywheel mechanism for firing.
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