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" What costs $400 and fires 144 rubber bands in 15 seconds? The Rubber Band Machine Gun, a vicious little beast of a weapon that will end those inter-cubicle conflicts before they even start. Esquire talked to the gun&amp;#039;s inventor, Don Mims, to find out why it feels so good to shoot 12 dozen rubber bands in the blink of an eye.  Honestly, a machine gun that fires rubber bands? Really?  One of my customers came to me with the idea, actually. The first one operated with a string that pulled rubber bands off in sequence and it was hard to load, so I that&amp;#039;s when I came up with this design, which has the mechanism for the 12-barrel gun, or 12 barrels with 12 rubber bands each around a center shaft.  Who&amp;#039;s buying the Rubber Band Machine Gun? Forty-year-old kids. One time a doctor in Florida\u2014a millionaire many times over\u2014wanted one custom made. We built it with cherry wood, brass ears, highly polished, and everything. It turned out to be a $3,000 unit. And he only wanted it for his game room!  What are the best rubber bands on the market? We order Band-It rubber bands. They come out of California but they are imported from Thailand. They&amp;#039;re premium pure gum rubber, so they hold their stretch better and don&amp;#039;t break. Really, they&amp;#039;re the best rubber band that you can buy. We order about 4 to 5 tons a few times a year.  Do you think this would be an effective way to use non-lethal force on unruly crowds? Maybe. The crowd might actually stop from laughing so hard. It always gets a smile from people. They&amp;#039;ll be walking along at a trade show and pass by the booth and do a double take. People always say &amp;#039;wow.&amp;#039;  So, is it really all fun and games until someone loses an eye? We&amp;#039;ve sold about a million and half rubber band guns and we&amp;#039;ve never lost an eye. Our guns are designed intentionally to not have enough power, weight, and energy to do any real damage.  Johnny, get your gun! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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