I don’t know if many of Popular Airsoft readers can still recall what a typewriter is. Probably a dinosaur now since the advent of personal computing and the rise of the internet, there are still millions out there gathering dust or already taken out for scrap. The typewriter has served its purpose really good, allowing us to churn out clearly written words in neat paragraphs without the need for electricity. Perhaps parents of many our readers can still recall the days where they need to get a batch of typewriter ribbons which nowadays can be akin to your computer ink cartridges (if you still use a computer printer) just to finish a report.

Many a novelist will owe his/her career to the typewriter. Some of the best novels were written on it and we do not know if best-selling books written using a computer have already surpassed those done on typewriters. We don’t yet, but of course it is inevitable.

But for one Quebecois artist, Eric Nado, his source of inspiration for typewriters is not about words to turn into novels, but rather turn them into beautiful looking works of gun art.  In story at Creators on Vice, Eric Nado said he used to play the typewriter of his mother when he was young.  Now as an artist, he wondered if he can turn typewriters into representations of a gun arsenal.

Of course, these are non-functioning guns, as these are rather works of art that take their inspiration from the design and shapes of firearms. Coincidentally, some typewriter brands share the same name as some famous gun manufacturers such as Remington and Rheinmetall

There is of course a link between typewriters and guns in terms of power to effect change. Typewriters can turn ideas into words that will inspire people to control their future and guns can forcefully effect that change. One can be said to peaceful tool, the other can be said to tool for violence. But with these tools, destinies are fulfilled, lives saved or destroyed, and people empowered or subjugated.

Nado’s effort turn them into a melded them into single works of art show the beauty in such designs that remind us of their power together or separately at the same time.

You can check the various typewriter guns at Eric Nado’s website.