stdenisg writes: "From the website: '...a fully functional machine gun with TWELVE rotating barrels and a live action trigger. Loads 12 bands per barrel for a whopping 144 rubber bands that shoot off as fast as you can turn the handle!' This article gives some background info. Impressive..."
I remember back in the olden days when we had one rubber band for the ammo and the trigger was top-mounted on the gun as a clothespin! Damn kids; they've never have had it rough...
No one will EVER blieve me, but I was ROBBED with a rubber band gun.
I am not sure if giving the details of a home made gun is legal or not, but those things were able to shoot a real bullet (a pistol, or an Israeli Thompson usually.)
This was back in africa, some of you might know what I am talking about, I will just give you some hints, and see if you can picture it.
Ingredients: 1) a cable of tire tube (American cars no longer have this, but back in africa, car tires were hollow, and they have a balloon like tube that goes between them and the rims. The tube is the black thing that some poeple swim with, if you ever been to a latin american or african beach.) You just cut an long stripe off of the tube, and this is a very hard rubber.
2) wooden skeleton (your favorite gun shape, we had ones that even had the curvy magazine of a Kalishnikov.)
3) a metal pipe. The longer, thinner, the more accurate.
4) an L shaped piece of steel, with a pointy end.
5) a long hard nail (this is curved on the wood, and used to hold the bullet.)
Steps: ------ If you arranged the above in some special way, put a bullet in the nail loop, and some how used the L shaped steel like an arrow and a bow, you would be able to shoot a real amu.
The bullet will fly straight, and the left over "butt" (what do you call it.) would be left in the nail loop (sometimes, if the nail is too weak, it would jump and hit you right between the eyes.)
Finally: -------- This is ALL finctional, and figment of my imagination. I bare no responsibilty for anything that results from following it. Grow up, and enjoy it as fiction.
Get one of these. When you see a student not paying attention in class fire one at him. When he complains fire another.
He'll duck the second one.
Now say to him. "Why did that second one not hit you?"
He'll say:"I ducked".
Now say: "And why did you not duck the first one".
He'll say: "I was not paying attention".
End with: "And who's fault was that?".
-- I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
Re:Advice to teachers.
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Danse
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And then get a good lawyer:(
-- It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
rubber bands fights
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spacefem
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Last time I started a cubicle war with a good stock of rubber bands I ended up with a bruise on the top of my back that was an exact outline of the continent of Australia. It lasted three days.
better guns
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oo7tushar
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this place (surefireproducts.com) sells some really nice products.
Of course, at work we have battle grouping for our elastic band wars and we've found that a good piece of card board works well as a machine gun...we've also found a hand technique which stings from 10 yards away. In fact, we did some studies of it in our friendly neighbourhood campus engineering department, and found that it has an inherent spin which stabilizes it (gyroscope).
Make a C with your index and thumb on your left hand. Hang the elastic loosely on it and then grab the bottom inside of the band and push towards your target (with your thumb). One side will be more tightly wound than the other. When you release your thumb it'll fire. No wear and tear as it doesn't hit your brace finger or cause redness (you newbies will find out what we mean when you use the two hand technique).
A rubber band machine gun with 12 barrels?
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Typingsux
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Shooting 12 rubber bands each?
Damn. I think that's gross.
-- The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
Cool, but not new
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Daniel+Rutter
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The Gatling rubber-band gun has been around for a while. It's now sold by the same most excellent people who made this trebuchet kit, but the rubber-band machine gun isn't actually something those guys make, any more than this catapult watch is.
Surefire Products are the makers of the Gatling rubber-band gun; it's their flagship product, and they (and their resellers) don't actually expect to sell many (or any) of them.
Surefire's far cheaper rubber-band handguns, on the other hand, are excellent:-).
10 seconds to fire
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BrookHarty
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Re:Right. Animal Cruelty is a Laugh a Minute.
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sedawkgrep
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Man lighten the fuck up. Just because we joke about something like that certainly doesn't mean someone intends to do it.
And no, shooting a rubber band at a cat isn't funny.
However...Firing a fully-automatic rubberband chaingun at a cat strikes so many comic images in one's head that you can't help but crack a smile. It's comic in it's absurdity.
I wish I had one of these guns to shoot at you, because I would do it, and I'd think it's funny.
sedawkgrep
-- Is that a salami in my pants or am I just happy to be me?
My 8th Grade music teacher was an oddball. One day, close to the summer, he decided he'd had enough with the drummers in the orchestra. They didn't do anything but bang as loud as they could on the snares and tympani. They didn't listen to anybody - they were probably all deaf at that point anyway.
Well, J.B. (the music teacher) decided to get even. He took a huge rubberband (about three or four feet long unstretched) and a six foot pole with a hook on the end. You know the kind - they're used to open high windows. He added the band to the hook, held the pole with one end and the free end of the 'band with the other.
Thus equipped, he swaggered out of his office, took aim, and winged the band full force into the side of the bass drum. It was like a thunderclap. He looked at the instigators over the top of his half-moons, said "You're next" and grinned like a maniac.
I'm impressed...I had to scroll down more than half the comments section to find the "i'm so fucking great for knowing about this before slashdot" post.
Then again, I guess that's a little slow for slashdot. I was banking on seeing this as the third comment.
Re:Right. Animal Cruelty is a Laugh a Minute.
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zerocool^
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not only that, but you know you're down and out when the article says, and i quote:
"The first time I loaded one, there was two of us working on it and it took us 20 minutes," said Mr. Toms, who lost his job a year ago as an executive in a Los Angeles-based dot-com firm.
"I applied everything I knew about running a dot-com business and merged it with my passion for fun artillery. I'm making a fraction of what I used to make as an executive, but I'm having a hell of a lot more fun."
The guns' inventor, Don Mims, 54, of Fort Worth, Texas, graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, but turned to his woodworking hobby as a career.
endquote. He was a dot.bomb exec and has an a degree in aerospace engineering, but he's selling rubber band guns. This is a guy who was willing to throw in the towel when he saw the way things were blowing, and do something fun with his life instead of bitching. Lots of/. posters could take a lesson from this guy.
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I remember back in the olden days when we had one rubber band for the ammo and the trigger was top-mounted on the gun as a clothespin! Damn kids; they've never have had it rough...
Karma whorin' since 1999
Wow Man!
Have you seen the price?
$395.00 !!!
I seriously doubt anybody could find a use for thi....
Wait a minute....
Here Kitty Kitty!!!
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Get one of these. When you see a student not paying attention in class fire one at him.
:"I ducked".
When he complains fire another.
He'll duck the second one.
Now say to him. "Why did that second one not hit you?"
He'll say
Now say: "And why did you not duck the first one".
He'll say: "I was not paying attention".
End with: "And who's fault was that?".
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
Last time I started a cubicle war with a good stock of rubber bands I ended up with a bruise on the top of my back that was an exact outline of the continent of Australia. It lasted three days.
So see, they're not only fun, they're artistic.
spacefem.com
Of course, at work we have battle grouping for our elastic band wars and we've found that a good piece of card board works well as a machine gun...we've also found a hand technique which stings from 10 yards away. In fact, we did some studies of it in our friendly neighbourhood campus engineering department, and found that it has an inherent spin which stabilizes it (gyroscope).
Make a C with your index and thumb on your left hand. Hang the elastic loosely on it and then grab the bottom inside of the band and push towards your target (with your thumb). One side will be more tightly wound than the other. When you release your thumb it'll fire. No wear and tear as it doesn't hit your brace finger or cause redness (you newbies will find out what we mean when you use the two hand technique).
Perfect sniper fire in a cubicle environment.
internet like monkeys'
Damn. I think that's gross.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
Surefire Products are the makers of the Gatling rubber-band gun; it's their flagship product, and they (and their resellers) don't actually expect to sell many (or any) of them.
Surefire's far cheaper rubber-band handguns, on the other hand, are excellent :-).
3 hours to load.
These guns should come with protective eyewear for managers/clients who come within range.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
Man lighten the fuck up. Just because we joke about something like that certainly doesn't mean someone intends to do it.
And no, shooting a rubber band at a cat isn't funny.
However...Firing a fully-automatic rubberband chaingun at a cat strikes so many comic images in one's head that you can't help but crack a smile. It's comic in it's absurdity.
I wish I had one of these guns to shoot at you, because I would do it, and I'd think it's funny.
sedawkgrep
Is that a salami in my pants or am I just happy to be me?
My 8th Grade music teacher was an oddball. One day, close to the summer, he decided he'd had enough with the drummers in the orchestra. They didn't do anything but bang as loud as they could on the snares and tympani. They didn't listen to anybody - they were probably all deaf at that point anyway.
:)
Well, J.B. (the music teacher) decided to get even. He took a huge rubberband (about three or four feet long unstretched) and a six foot pole with a hook on the end. You know the kind - they're used to open high windows. He added the band to the hook, held the pole with one end and the free end of the 'band with the other.
Thus equipped, he swaggered out of his office, took aim, and winged the band full force into the side of the bass drum. It was like a thunderclap. He looked at the instigators over the top of his half-moons, said "You're next" and grinned like a maniac.
It shut 'em up for a whole day.
Triv
I'm impressed...I had to scroll down more than half the comments section to find the "i'm so fucking great for knowing about this before slashdot" post.
Then again, I guess that's a little slow for slashdot. I was banking on seeing this as the third comment.
not only that, but you know you're down and out when the article says, and i quote:
/. posters could take a lesson from this guy.
"The first time I loaded one, there was two of us working on it and it took us 20 minutes," said Mr. Toms, who lost his job a year ago as an executive in a Los Angeles-based dot-com firm.
"I applied everything I knew about running a dot-com business and merged it with my passion for fun artillery. I'm making a fraction of what I used to make as an executive, but I'm having a hell of a lot more fun."
The guns' inventor, Don Mims, 54, of Fort Worth, Texas, graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, but turned to his woodworking hobby as a career.
endquote.
He was a dot.bomb exec and has an a degree in aerospace engineering, but he's selling rubber band guns. This is a guy who was willing to throw in the towel when he saw the way things were blowing, and do something fun with his life instead of bitching. Lots of
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