>>10916950This is the actual reason. A blaster with a firing projectile requires the blaster to be molded in two halves and glued, with a spring inside, and a separate piece for the projectile. Three molded parts, a metal piece, and assembly vs one molded part.
>>10916961This is also correct but in the sense that people elected Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden who have collectively squandered nearly 35 trillion, driven our dollar into the ground, and made doing business virtually impossible thus the need for extreme cost cutting by manufacturers.
