Rubber Band Triggers - a notch above

Nearly all of the rubber band guns I have seen involve rather cheap plastic or wooden triggers, or even worse -- strange finger-twisting ways of releasing a rubber band to fly on it's erratic way...

Well, there are some exceptions to that, but let's settle by saying they are not "mainstream".

Back to mainstream, here is a more common example of a wooden and plastic repeater:

They may have an "ok" trigger pull, but it has several problems:

1. They are typically cheap, flexible plastic.  *
2. Pulling the trigger must rewind the whole spool slightly before release
3. This causes a much varying trigger pull, and
4. The trigger kicks your finger forward when pulled as the wheel rotates.

These problems would be totally unacceptable for a real firearm, which is not a toy.  It's time to make rubber band guns the same way, so the only "toy" thing about them is the fact that they shoot rubber.

* Note, if it were "Glock" style plastic, that would be a whole different story.

How can this be improved?

1. Need the vision to improve
2. Solid engineering
3. High quality materials
4. Advanced manufacturing techniques

As an example, here is a set of triggers made for M6-001:

What can be taken from this?  Simply that most rubber band guns, to date, have not had serious engineering or manufacturing techniques applied to them.  For them to become a serious sport, this needs to change.

Until next time, and as always, have a great day!