CALLING all office outlaws. A new range of rapid-fire, non-lethal firearms is about to hit the streets, courtesy of several US-based online shops. Their ammo? The schoolkids’ favourite: rubber bands.
The flagship “piece” is a 12-barrel machine gun that’s capable of loosing off 144 rubber bands before you need to reload. Designed by Don Mims, a retired aerospace engineer from Texas, the $400 executive toy is modelled on the Gatlin gun of 1862, adopted by several of the world’s armies and a staple of many a spaghetti western.
The wooden machine gun stands 1 metre high on its tripod and has 12 rotating barrels. True to the original design, Mims’s gun fires rounds as fast as you can crank its handle (see it at ). “We keep one loaded in the office at all times to defend against hostile takeover attempts and pushy vendors,” says one of the online shops selling Mims’s gadget.
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For rubber bandits who want to be armed to the teeth, other guns in the range include a six-shooter styled on the Magnum 45 and a double-barrelled shotgun. Boardroom meetings will never be the same again.
