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Originally Posted by Steven Donow
My intial thought is that they're spring release pistons in an effort to save air.
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That might be true. I'd also wager it's because of the lever arm between those pistons and the shooter arc plates. Given that they're probably compressing the ball quite a bit, I'd expect without the latch that the pistons would give slightly under the compression load, making the shot less consistent. The latch makes it solid metal holding the load, as opposed to air.