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I got mine as a gift and my 6 year old thought it was the coolest thing in the world. He begged me to let him use it. I immediately felt a since of dread, as the last thing I wanted was him using it to shoot his little sister and maybe get her in the eye. It's now hidden in the truck of my car. It's a neat gadget, but definitely not a toy.

I've had one for a while. Cocking it automatically engages a safety that you have to disengage in order to fire. I've invited guests to try it, and even fumbling with it, no one has fired it accidentally.

If, however, one is beset by insects and doesn't have many child visitors, the safety can be disabled by moving the switch to the unsafe position and putting a screw into the plastic next to it so it can't re-engage.

What's wrong with pointing a camera up the barrel? As long as nobody's behind it, the worst case scenario is you break your camera (and given the video quality, I'd say that'd be a good motivator to upgrade, haha).

"Yer gonna put somebody's composite eyes out with that!"