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Rubber Band Machine Gun holds 672 elastic shots

The rubber band gun of your childhood can just quit now. The Rubber Band Machine Gun puts it to shame.
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Rubber Band Machine Gun
Finally, a much cooler way to store your rubber band collection.
(Credit: Alex Shpetniy)
I had a rubber band gun when I was a kid. It was made from a scrap of wood and had all the shooting accuracy of a blueberry pancake. Nonetheless, it came in handy for the local kid-wars. If only I had access to the Rubber Band Machine Gun, I would have ruled the neighborhood.
The elastic-flinging device has already shot past its $5,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. Rubber-band Gatling guns have been created before, but the Kickstarter project creator has refined the concept and brought the price down to the $100 level.
The gun is built from birch plywood cut with a CNC machine. A small motor running on five AA batteries rotates the barrel when you pull the trigger. It propels bands up to 26 feet, releasing 14 per second.

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Normally, it would take a lot of time to load 672 rubber bands onto a rubber band gun, but the $100 pledge level includes a fast charger, an extra device that loads 14 bands at a time. To get to maximum capacity, you have to load three bands onto each slot.
As usual when dealing with projectiles of any kind, don't point this rubber-band-blasting bad boy at people or animals. Target shooting should keep you plenty busy, plus you'll spend plenty of time picking up the detritus after zapping 672 rubber bands around your house.
Rubber Band Machine Gun colors
The rubber-band gun comes in three color options.
(Credit: Alex Shpetniy)
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This would have been the bane of my childhood, but the sweet, sweet dreams of my adulthood. "Oh honey, you know how I said I was still looking for that one big, over the top gift for the kids? (ok, for me)" 
American, do you know that you are allow to own big boys firearm? Unless you're a criminal and live in Commifornia or some sort. With $100 you can. Protect yourself and your family and have fun at the range all at the same time. What are you going to have with this rubber band gun waste of money? 
Don't point it at people .... yeah...right.  (Let's play a rubber band war.  Oh! By the way, I can only shoot at walls....)

Next up, the rubber band cannon.  
The rubber band moonshot is still in the works.  Size and tension required make it a questionable device.
The cats and dog would not be safe in my house if my kids got ahold of this weapon of mass destruction.
Nobody NEEDS 672 rubber bands. Just get a 'double-barrel' rubber band gun. If I had a wife named Jill, I would tell her to walk out onto the balcony and fire to blasts, or in this case, rubber bands, outside the house.
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