Awesome Guns

You won’t need an alien hand to own one, but you’ll need a steady hand to make one: learn how to build your own District 9 Gun using XPS foam, Isopon P38, cardboard, and PVA glue.

Started in 2007, IMFDB.org (aka the Internet Movie Firearms Database) is now fully loaded with an arsenal of guns used in nearly every movie, TV show, video game and anime.

It’s a pity that WETA’s one-of-a-kind rayguns are already sold out; each of the trio (Sputnik 500, Death from Above, Jagd Kanone) features slick WW2/steampunk paint jobs.

Revenge is best served sweet with this pump-action Elite Marshmallow Blaster, which hurls cubes of sugary death up to 40 feet; it comes in a briefcase for clandestine s’mores strikes.

Issued to Japanese police, the Doryu 2-16 Pistol Camera features a grip with trigger that gives new meaning to shooting pictures; it’s a 16 mm movie camera with Nikkor 25mm lens.

Dr. Grordbort is back with The Righteous Bison; WETA’s latest raygun prop is their slickest yet, with a sharp, rakish profile, steampunk accents and a gothic-style engraved handle.

Waterloo Labs’ FPS with Real Guns rigs up a projection screen with accelerometers to detect bullet impacts: in other words, it lets you literally shoot the screen while playing Half-Life.

Like the Wild West in reverse, the Fly-Goodbye Gun doesn’t shoot; it uses a vacuum to suck up flies into either a deadly glue cartridge or a more humane catch-and-release canister.

We’re not sure how much precision aiming a giant blast of air needs, but for hard-core cubicle warriors there’s no beating the Laser Airzooka, with comes with a laser targeting system.

Billed as the world’s smallest double action revolver, the SwissMiniGun measures just over 2 inches and can fire 2.34 mm rimfire ammo up to 360 feet; it’s 100% Swiss made.

Declare war on unlabeled tees everywhere: each Nike’s T-Shirt Gun is limited edition, numbered, and engraved with a Nike athlete signature; they’d better, considering the price tag.

Potato cannons are a favorite project for weekend warriors, but this Potato Gatling Gun brings serious spud pwnage: for $200, it packs six barrels and can launch tubers up to 400 feet.

A “science story for grown-ups with swearing and rayguns,” Warren Ellis’ Ignition City now has a quartet of 1:1 scale raygun replicas from the comic miniseries; absolutely DO WANT.

Lifelong inventor Dan (aka Tinkerbots) of San Diego has a sweet collection of ray guns that are pure heaven for steampunk and retro sci-fi fans; he assembles them from found objects.