Fully automatic Lego Gears of War rubberband assault rifle

Plumb B made this rubber-band-firing, full auto-capable chainsaw/assault rifle out of Lego, inspired by the Lancer Assault Rifle in Gears of War.

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Lancer Assault Rifle - GEARS OF WAR - [mocpages.com]

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Now he’ll need a lot of LEGO bricks to build a ton of chest-high walls.
bcsizemo

Only 4 or so shots per cartridge…?

I think the previous Lego gun warfare was much more impressive:
http://boingboing.net/2011/01/26/happy-100th-birthday.html
bnewbold

See also this amazing presentation by Eric from Instructables at the Open Hardware Summit this year on K’nex guns:
http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2011-09-15-Open-Hardware-Summit-small.pdfawesome

punchline: http://www.instructables.com/id/X985-VIVISECTOR/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY5027bPGhk
jeligula

This is a gorgeous piece of plastic engineering, but it appeared to me that very few standard Lego blocks were utilized in its construction. I would therefore hesitate to call it a Lego gun. Also, it appears to be semi-automatic, not fully automatic. I didn’t watch the whole video as it was slow, dry and uninteresting after the initial reveal, but the demonstration of the “action” showed no fully automatic capabilities. Am I wrong? I couldn’t see spending eight minutes watching the entire thing.
- PrettyBoyTim
  
  How can you call it ‘not Lego’? The only non-Lego parts I could see were the rubber bands. If you’d skipped ahead in the video, you’d have seen a section where he shows it disassembled.
  
  It’s all Lego.
- http://BrianEaston.net/ Brian Easton
  
  Moving the selector all the way down makes it fire all the bands at once.
  
  As far as Technic goes there was hardly any non-standard pieces used and Lego Technic is still Lego.
Machinebot

This kid(?) needs to pursue a career in Engineering. Interchangeable, multi-shot magazines? That’s pretty impressive.
petsounds

I read the Youtube title as Lego Cancer Assault Rifle. I guess I’ve heard too much dying from cancer recently. If only we could invent a gun for that.
newe1344

haha this dude is pretty smart
Petzl

This is not your father’s fully automatic Lego rubberband assault rifle!
gijoel

Mars: Bringer of Lego.
anderalert

Awesome! Finally an explanation for why the Lancer is so damn big. Yes, it is all Lego. And the no-talking demo is also a cool Lego thing, like the games. Sure beats most of the youtoob long winded b.s. Win.
Mister44

Lego madness? This! Is! Awesome!
http://twitter.com/burgerflipr Cleveland Moore

wonder how bad the cops would beat you if they saw it lying in the floor board of your car until they found out what it really was?