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I don't think so...

Reading through these posts reminded me of our blow gun experiment. We took a bunch of q-tips (the kind with plastic shafts) and cut them in half, stole all the pins from mom's pin cushion, and a few drinking straws from the kitchen.

We'd heat up the plastic shafts to the melting point and stick the head of a pin in. As the plastic began to cool, you'd pinch it down around the pin head. After it set up, you had a blow dart. Stick the blow dart into a drinking staw (pin toward what you wanted to stick, fuzzy end toward your mouth) and blow (make sure you get your breath in before you put the straw close to your mouth). We started out shooting at our dart board, graduated to frogs and lizzards, and eventually shot them at each other (until my mom had to remove one from my brother's forehead). After the swelling and bruising in my backside went down, I decided blow gun hunting wasn't all it was cracked up to be...

I guess if a kid made one of those now, he'd be suspended, arrested, found to be "troubled" and referred to counseling, or all of the above. We just thought we were being normal kids.