It's the result of the great PR campaign of the Wrist Rocket. About the best slingshots I've ever seen were the old Brazilian thorn tree forked stick with rubber from the earth moving equipment inner tubes used on the Belém-Brasilia highway in the late 60's. The later 70's era 'tubes were not nearly as good as the earlier ones. Anyway, that rubber, cut square profile and lashed to the stick with more of the same that was sliced thin, could propel a smooth river rock at impressive speeds to incredible distances when compared to other slingshots of the time. My cousin brought back an original Wrist Rocket - but it wasn't quite up to the standard set by the old inner tube rubber he'd had before.

So the PR campaign of the company scared a NY pantywaist legislator (pardon me for repeating myself) into banning the abominable wrist braced slingshot "for the children".