Which is really ironic, as my late father is the formal registered inventor of the Folding Crossbow.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4926834A/en
No, this one isn’t a folding crossbow, but it does seem powerful enough to potentially be deadly. It’s raining today so I’ll have to wait for a good weather day and find an old used slab of wood for target practice.
I ain’t about to shoot anyone with it silly, and I know good and well the neighbor that gave it to me hasn’t shot anyone with it either. If I had to guess, she gave it to me because her grandkids done lost most of the arrows for it and she didn’t want it to go to the trash if they lost those last 4 arrows.