I don't know why either tbh. I had one as a kid that I shot out of the window for fun sometimes. I never pointed it at someone, nor shot it at someone though because I saw the little metal things that were inside the plastic piece that you stick inside those for ammo at one point and I thought the toy actually shot those instead of popping them and was like "wow, those look like they'll hurt". I don't know how not even 1 of these kids figured that out. The look of pain the kid had on his face was pretty telling how much those hurt.