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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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And they say "kids are getten' stupider."
That young man has a great mechanical engineering career ahead of him :)
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It shoots *lego* bricks. That makes more sense then.
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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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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