Rubber band gun Rubber band gun A rubber band gun, often abbreviated to RBG, is a toy gun used to fire one or more rubber bands (or "elastic bands"). Rubber band guns are often used in live-action games such as Assassins, in which they are common and popular toy weapons. They are also common in offices and classrooms. Rubber band guns have been popular toys that date back to the invention of rubber bands, which were patented in England on March 17, 1845 by Stephen Perry. This is the simplest form of rubber band gun. Its firing mechanism consists solely of a clothespin.
Rubber band gun miniguns, while some even shoot actual bricks. Many RBGs can be built out of Lego, from simple hinge guns to extremely complex fire-rate-dampening automatic rifles. Lego rubber band gun mechanisms can also be used to launch light projectiles of various types, from small bricks and paper planes to wooden skewers. Lego rubber band guns are also quite reliable, without all the complexity of K'Nex. Most Lego rubber band guns have been made and posted to YouTube, some even firing small bricks using the mechanism. It is difficult to devise a suitable, practical magazine-fed rubber band gun system out of Lego,