Replica guns with LEGOs build by british student
This guy is a real chip off the old Glock.
As gun control dominates Capitol Hill and dinner discussions nationwide, a British engineering student is on a block-by-block mission to more weapons into more houses - a LEGO block at a time.
Jack Streat, a 18-year-old Durham University student, is a famous LEGO weapons builder with more than 30,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, where he showcases four life-sized replica of the most recognizable in the world firearms, including the imposing Desert Eagle with recoil action and AKS-74U assault rifle with folding stock.
"It started when I was about 12," Streat told FoxNews.com from his hobby turned part-time job. "Guns were my thing at that age and I've always built with LEGO, so it was obvious to combine two things that I thought was pretty cool at the time."
Streat, who estimates that he "quite a few thousand" LEGO bricks, took his love for the publishing world last year with the release of 'LEGO Heavy Weapons, "a 368-page how-to guide for realistic replicas of firearms that build Use rubber bands to small plastic blocks a few feet or more dams.
While Streat is not the first LEGO enthusiasts to build weapons with the iconic toy, he has sold more than 4,000 books online since May and is praised as a "legend" of the LEGO community.
"If you sold it in kits, I would buy them," a post on Streat's YouTube channel to read.
"Long live the Streat," read another.
Streat's book provides detailed instructions to build the replica, which he estimated would cost about $ 100 to build it separately, a "fairly expensive" venture, he said. But he does not sell its finished products to toy gun or LEGO fans as he holds the virtually all-black pieces to build new weapons.
"They existed when I was on stage, but I came up with some new ideas," said Streat LEGO guns. "But I think I was one of the top people at the moment doing."
For now, Streat "packed" are countless LEGO as he focuses on the study of engineering. When asked about critics who say that a replica gun is a potentially dangerous deadlock to happen, streat likened his wares to Airsoft or pellet guns.
"They are less powerful, less realistic and less durable than an Airsoft gun," he said. "And they are not as dangerous. So what view you have on Airsoft guns apply vague here. For me it was about finding something interesting to build cannons and filled those criteria."
Michael McNally, brand relations director of LEGO Systems, told FoxNews.com that the company does not have the content or use of unapproved books to approve, and particularly those with content that does not fit with its brand values.
The book also warns against treating the replicas in public because they are mistaken for real weapons.
"If you LEGO weapon in public, add a bright orange tip to the muzzle as a way of saying that it is not the real thing," concludes the warning.
Meanwhile streat,, acknowledged that some of his online critics find the juxtaposition of LEGO and high-power artillery to be "very scary," including someone he suspects to be affiliated with the Denmark-based company.
"I find it very hypocritical," he said. "It's just fun."
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