The mask thing has been a hot button. People don’t like wearing them. Some people wear them and have no issues doing so. In any case, it doesn’t seem like they are going away anytime in the near future. This guy is having some fun with it or he created something to really piss people off. You decide.
There’s an engineer named Allen Pan who builds crazy stuff for YouTube videos. And his newest invention is a gun that shoots masks onto people’s faces. Obviously it’s just a joke, and he’s not using it on real people.
This handheld cannon was cobbled together from various parts. The grip came from a spray paint handle, the frame was laser cut, and the pneumatic system is CO2-powered and very similar to what he used to make the swing launcher he built for Colin Furze’s Christmas gift. The mask has strings with weights at the end that wrap around the back of the target’s head to hold the mask securely in place after it makes contact. To make it easy to aim, the cannon was equipped with a laser sight. After testing, Pan took the mask cannon out the Huntington Beach, California to find out how receptive the public was to the idea. People seemed pretty excited about this new way to fight COVID-19, though Pan obviously didn’t shoot anyone without their consent.
