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Awesome Guns

Extreme Bottle Opener

Extreme Bottle Opener

While he didn’t manage to nail it with every shot, it’s still impressive that Olympic shooting coach Zhou Shibing managed to cleanly take the caps off of several bottles of beer by firing at them with his air rifle on the Chinese reality show Impossible Challenge.

See-through Gun Suppressors

See-through Gun Suppressors

Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day teamed up with the folks at Soteria Suppressors to create special gun silencers wrapped in transparent cast acrylic, then captured amazing slow-mo footage of them in action using a high-speed camera at a whopping 110,000 fps.

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DIY Semi-Automatic Paper Gun

DIY Semi-Automatic Paper Gun

Blackfish shows us how to create a really cool toy weapon which fires rolled up paper projectiles. Its rubber band powered revolver mechanism lets it fire up to eight darts without reloading. We assume you could expand on the idea and make one that fires more ammo.

PlastCraft Fallout 4 Gauss Rifle

PlastCraft Fallout 4 Gauss Rifle

Etsy store PlastCraft makes video game-inspired collectibles and props. Its pièce de résistance at the moment is this badass gauss rifle replica inspired by Fallout 4‘s weaponry. It’s filled with blue LEDs and has nixie tubes that indicate the battery’s charge.

Silencing a Silencer

Silencing a Silencer

For no other reason than to get YouTube views, the guys at West Coast Armory continuously fired 700 rounds from a full-auto M249 saw machine gun to see how quickly they could melt the silencer they installed. The answer? Not long. Not long at all.

NERF Modulus Tri-Strike

NERF Modulus Tri-Strike

This over-the-top NERF gun can fire three different types of projectiles, including Elite darts, oversize MEGA darts, and our personal favorite, the giant MEGA Missile ammo. Its modular design lets you use the blasters individually as well.

World’s Largest Super Soaker

World’s Largest Super Soaker

Not satisfied with having the world’s largest NERF gun, Mark Rober and his friends spent a total of 6 months making the world’s largest Super Soaker. The 7ft long gun shoots water at up to 272mph using pressurized nitrogen.

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DIY Cardboard Glock

DIY Cardboard Glock

Cardboard and rubber band weapon maker Blackfish shows off an amazing build which looks just like a Glock 19 handgun, with working slide and firing mechanism, and an ammo clip filled with bullets made from crayons. After the action, he shows off how to build your own.

Where a Gun Begins

Where a Gun Begins

(Gore) We’ve seen plenty of Breaking Bad tributes and video essays, but we’ve got to hand it to Filmscalpel and Larry Erens for keeping it fresh with their take, which focuses on Walter White’s de-evolution as told through his relationship with firearms and explosives.

Dart Zone Quad Pack

Dart Zone Quad Pack
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An awesome pack of foam dart toys which includes a pair of pump-action, break-action, double-barrel shotguns, along with a duo of pocket-sized single dart blasters that can fire projectiles up to 80 feet.

The Littlest Shotgun

The Littlest Shotgun

(PG-13: Language) Ever wonder what the weensy shotgun from Killing Them Softly would do in real life? Kjaskaar created a ridiculously short-barreled shotgun to see exactly what damage it would do. Even if it is deadly, it’s not a particularly practical weapon.

DIY Popsicle Stick NERF Blaster

DIY Popsicle Stick NERF Blaster

Sure, you can buy a NERF blaster for less than $10, but there’s something rewarding about making your own stuff. Here, Astonishing Studios shows us how to make a working NERF gun using popsicle sticks, straws, a syringe, and an ample dose of hot glue.

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20-Shot Pinfire Revolver

20-Shot Pinfire Revolver

Forgotten Weapons examines a very special weapon. This ornate double-barrel handgun is not only covered with intricate gold inlay and engraving, it has 20 bullet chambers, and a really interesting firing mechanism. It ended up selling for $34,500 at auction.

LEGO NERF Gun

LEGO NERF Gun

AstonishingStudios combined two of our favorite man-child playthings, LEGO and NERF, by creating a fully-functional replica of a NERF Maverick Rev-6 gun using the plastic building bricks. Now we want a LEGO Mega Mastodon.

The Shotgun Guitar

The Shotgun Guitar

Yee-Haw! Reverend Peyton of Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band shows off a very special three-string guitar that pickup designer Bryan Fleming made for him. It doesn’t sound like any guitar we’ve ever heard before, but it can still fire shotgun shells with the best of them.

Bullets vs. Propeller in Slow Motion

Bullets vs. Propeller in Slow Motion

The Slow Mo Guys promote Battlefield 1 by looking at how the guns mounted in front of some World War I planes were able to avoid shooting through the planes’ propeller. Then they turned off the synchronization gear and let the propeller have it.

2 Chainz Checks out Expensive Guns

2 Chainz Checks out Expensive Guns

(PG-13: Language) “You’d be surprised who buys these guns.” “No I won’t.” Most Expensivest Sh*t host 2 Chainz visits Pacific Sporting Arms to check out some of the finest guns you’ll ever see, including one that’s part of a $354K set and took two years just to engrave.

NERF N-Strike Mega Mastodon

NERF N-Strike Mega Mastodon

A beast of a NERF gun, this motorized Mega blaster holds 24 darts in its rotating drum feeder, and can fire the whole bunch in less than 20 seconds, annihilating targets up to 100 feet away. Comes with 24 whistling foam darts.

Thompson.

Thompson.

Trench Broom. Chicago Typewriter. Tommy Gun. The Thompson submachine gun was intended to be used in World War I, but peace time turned it into a gangster’s weapon. That is, until the second War. Ahoy sums up the fascinating tale of a weapon that’s part sinner, part saint.

Life-size DOOM BFG

Life-size DOOM BFG

Bethesda Softworks UK teamed up with MyMiniFactory to 3D print one of the most ambitious weapon models ever – a life-size replica of DOOM’s ridiculously oversized Big F**king Gun. Have a roomful of 3D printers and tons of filament? Download the files here.

Splashlight

Splashlight

BioToy’s unique squirt gun fires water mixed with bioluminescent proteins, which allow the streams to glow brightly in the dark. Targets hit with the non-toxic stuff will glow for several minutes after being hit. We want paintballs filled with this stuff now.

Playing the Metallophon

Playing the Metallophon

Weapons expert Vitaly Kryuchin heads up the Russian Federation of Practical Shooting. While on the firing range, he came up with this very special musical instrument called the Metallophon, which is played with bullets and extraordinary aim.

FAL.

FAL.

Ahoy’s latest firearm profile is about the Fusil Automatique Léger (“Light Automatic Rifle”) aka FN FAL. Developed for the NATO in the face of the Cold War, the FAL never became as popular as its predecessors or the more high tech rifles that came shortly afterwards.

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