I agree that it's best to be a reliable news source which doesn't just run to any potential story and speculate/hype things beyond what you actually have facts on. Great job keeping a good mindset and maintaining journalistic integrity!
About the Tomcat 2/Stryker. I was expecting the large ammo drum like original with performance like Nexus Pro X. About the "boxy". It isn't neccesary lazyness. It is maybe some market outside USA with different rules for "toy, look-alike, and imitation firearms". Checking around maybe is the market of Australia. I read a file from the Victoria Police, check. Also contact Brandon Phillips. He is from Australia and have a RU-vid channel.
I need to disagree with the part about the german Nerf "scene" being too far away and basically non-existant. There is traditionally a larger focus on LARP here, that is true. HvZ is completely unknown as well, which his super sad. And the general difficulties of running a hobby that includes shooting projectiles at others for fun, which is quite frowned upon over here. Not to talk about the limits on what we can really do with toys over here, which leads into a way too long discussion (whc´ich no event creator wants to talk about anyways). But there ARE events all over Germany. In the western-middle there is the ONC, once a month close to Bielefeld. In Stuttgart (south-west) is an event multiple times per year, which gets announced via the dreaded forum(s). In Mannheim (kind of south, but more to the west) is the TuS Flomersheim holding regular Nerf events. In Coburg (northern Bavaria/Franconia, so soth-east) is the Dartgewitter regularly. In Hessia (center) is at the Airsoft place in Lauterbach multiple times a year a Nerf event. What is true that north of NRW there are virtually no events until you hit Denmark. but we do have regular guests come in from Berlin, Heidelberg, Aurich at the North sea coast to Nerf at the ONC. Yes, that is 2-3 hours by car one direction which sounds ridiculous to americans, but in Europe it seems like travelling the world...