>>7498373much like most things it's avoiding that one time risks that if a kid did get shot and the parents sue your company and win, you don't lose millions on millions and get bad press for it. In 1978 Mattel was almost killed by one lawsuit and bad press incident over -one- kid dying from their toys, ever since then most companies that deal with kid merc and apparels do everything they can to avoid an incident because you only need one kid to be hurt or killed involving your product to lose everything.