Cap Guns

What Exactly Are Paper Caps? The Nature of the Explosive Paper caps are, in essence, the ammunition for cap guns. They are small, circular or strip-like pieces of paper that contain a small amount of a percussion-sensitive explosive. This explosive mixture, typically a combination of substances like potassium perchlorate and a binder, is what creates … Read more

Introduction The Magic of the Toy The humid summer air hung heavy, thick with the scent of freshly cut grass and the metallic tang of spent caps. Ten-year-old me, crouching behind a hastily built fort of discarded cardboard boxes, gripped my Tommy Gun cap gun. Its weight, its shape, the satisfying *crack* of the caps … Read more