--- title: This 3D-Printed Gun Launches Paper Airplanes description: All thanks to the power of 3D printing canonical: https://time.com/3549267/gun-paper-airplanes/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-30T19:39:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:12.873Z article:section: Ideas og:title: This 3D-Printed Gun Launches Paper Airplanes og:description: All thanks to the power of 3D printing og:url: https://time.com/3549267/gun-paper-airplanes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This 3D-Printed Gun Launches Paper Airplanes twitter:description: All thanks to the power of 3D printing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This 3D-Printed Gun Launches Paper Airplanes by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 30, 2014 7:39 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 30, 2014 7:39 PM UTC  _This_ [_article_](http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/10/22/guy-built-home-made-gun-fires-paper-airplanes-hero/) _originally appeared on_ [_Lost at E Minor_](http://www.lostateminor.com/)_._ First we brought you the [crossbow built from office supplies](http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/06/13/make-crossbow-using-office-supplies/), and now we’re proud to present… the paper airplane machine gun! With the power of 3D printing YouTuber [Papierfliegerei](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTuM7bUkz-Szeabw6P%5FPbWw) built this awesome contraption. Powered by a cordless screwdriver, the Papierflieger-Maschinenpistole folds and fires paper airplanes at the pull of a trigger. While there is no practical use for it we still think this is perhaps the greatest thing we’ve ever seen. As its proud creator explains: ‘A little tinkering from me that shows what you can do with 3D printers today.’ (Via [It’s Nice That](http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/paper-airplane-machine-gun)) This 3D-Printed Gun Launches Paper Airplanes ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3549267/gun-paper-airplanes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3549267/gun-paper-airplanes/"},"headline":"This 3D-Printed Gun Launches Paper Airplanes","datePublished":"2014-10-30T19:39:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:12.873Z","description":"All thanks to the power of 3D printing","url":"https://time.com/3549267/gun-paper-airplanes/","keywords":["Innovation","3D printing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3549267/gun-paper-airplanes/","name":"This 3D-Printed Gun Launches Paper Airplanes"}}]}] ```