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Brick Shooting Shotgun Built From Lego By 15-Year-Old
Lanxon writes "A mildly terrifying young Brit named Jack Streat has managed to build a series of working guns, including a Lee Enfield bolt-action sniper rifle, entirely out of Lego and rubber bands, reports Wired. Streat, who lists himself as 15 years old on his profile, has constructed an enormous and diverse armory of weaponry that fire either rubber bands or Lego bricks. Most are based on real-life guns, including a Steyr AUG, a Tommygun, an AK-47, a belt-fed M429 PARA, an Arctic Warfare sniper rifle, a Glock 17, a pair of semi-automatic TEC-9s, a SPAS 12 pump-action shotgun and a minigun that he calls the Obliterator."
This kid rocks and is putting his brain to good use, doing things he finds interesting and fun.
Pity the sensationalist article makes it sound bad.
How many of you built cool things out of legos when you were kids just to see if you could make it work.
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including a Steyr AUG, a Tommygun, an AK-47, a belt-fed M429 PARA, an Arctic Warfare sniper rifle, a Glock 17, a pair of semi-automatic TEC-9s, a SPAS 12 pump-action shotgun
So... I take it he plays counter strike.
And they say "kids are getten' stupider."
That young man has a great mechanical engineering career ahead of him :)
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I used to try recreating guns from Turok: Dinosaur Hunter using K-NEX, but it meant hitting the contraption with my palm to launch the "bullet" which didn't work well. Kind of cool to see someone else trying something similar with success.
But man, at this rate we can say nothing's evolved far enough until someone's made a working Lego model of it. Lego Yoshi, Lego printer, now Lego guns. Bring on the Lego JavaScript on Linux!
It shoots *lego* bricks. That makes more sense then.
You will shoot bricks...
If you look at the kid's youtube channel, he states pretty clearly that he will not sell his instructions or any of the models. He even states that he breaks down the guns to reuse legos in other models. The press, as usual, is trying to whip up a fear storm.
If someone gives this kid a Meccano set, I think he might take over the planet.
Does he need a special license for that?
The video also should’ve read “Fire it” rather than “Shoot it”...
Pedantry aside, that was extremely cool.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
I take it after the great war he'll build us guns to kill the mutants with and ensure the survival of the human race!
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Hope Lego give this kid a life time of free Legos
You've clearly never had a child.
Say your child expresses interest in attempting construction of one of the aforementioned Lego guns, and the only reason he's interested is because it's a gun and it would be cool to see if it can shoot. You have two choices:
a) Immediately tell him to stop, squashing his imagination and creativity, and making him resent you in the process; or
b) Allow him to proceed, knowing full damn well that this is a hobby with zero or minimal risk of injury, then after he's built a few show him how the mechanisms can be adapted to non-weapon Lego machinery or challenge him to use his acquired skills to build something useful.
Guess which one works a lot better?
Yeah so pretty much legos are in trouble. I'm sure this is reason for panic at corporate.
I notice there were alot of lego things in there that i never seen before, not that i played with them much growing up. Perhaps they will look into the key pieces that made these guns work and consider altering or ending production. Like starting with banning black pieces completely. They also need to add a warning label to every package sold: "Product could be used to build weapons."
If this had been done in america it would have made more sense, everyone would point to it as another american cowboy violence blah blah thing but this kid is in uk. Shouldnt he be building a nice tea set or something?
Guns are important. There is nothing inherently evil about them. There is nothing evil about toy guns.
The kid is a genius. That sort of genius should be actively encouraged, whether it is gun-related or not. I don't see anything at all wrong with how he is using his talents at the moment.
I think he should sell his designs (if he wants to) and not take any flack for it.
It fires a single projectile (basically a Lego bullet) with each discharge, whereas a shotgun, by definition, discharges several projectiles which spread after leaving the barrel.
Still wicked cool, though.
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Get a life, not everyone else's.
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If we followed OP's opinions, we'll never have enough sacrifice to get flying cars and my first Lego railgun particle-accelerator!
*bitchslap*
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The kid rocks. Definitely either an engineering or designing career in his future.