My boys got a 2 pack of the proton guns for Christmas and they are definitely powerful guns. My boys are 7 and 3 1/2 and I think these are a little too powerful for kids their age. The discs (here for $4 for 10) are pretty hard... they have a plastic center with a firm foam edging. When they first got them, my younder son accidentally shot it at the window and it was louder than the suction cup bullets and the disc hit so hard that it came almost all the way back to my son.