page_title: Cap gun
section_title: Types of caps
hierarchical_section_title: Cap gun / Types of caps
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Munition (8er Ring) für Spielzeugwaffen English: 8-ring ammunition for a toy cap gun.
context_page_description: A cap gun, cap pistol, or cap rifle is a toy gun that creates a loud sound simulating a gunshot and a puff of smoke when a small percussion cap is exploded. Cap guns were originally made of cast iron, but after World War II were made of zinc alloy, and most newer models are made of plastic.
  Cap guns get their name from the small discs of shock-sensitive explosive compounds that provide the noise and smoke, effectively the same as the Maynard tape primer and percussion caps used in real firearms of the mid to late 1800s but usually smaller and made from cheap plastic or paper. Some are arranged in plastic rings of eight or twelve. There are also single caps, roll caps, disk caps, and cap strips all of which are actually extremely small versions of percussion fireworks. Armstrong's mixture is often used today as the explosive, but previously the tiny powder charge was a simple mixture of potassium perchlorate, sulfur, and antimony sulfide sandwiched between two paper layers which hold in the gases long enough to give a sound report when the cap is struck.
context_section_description: Roll caps, perforated roll caps: often sold in sets of five rolls of 50 red paper caps per roll.
  Greenie Stick-M-Caps: Green peel-and-stick paper caps manufactured by the Mattel company to stick on the back of their "Shootin' Shells"
  Plastic, red circular discs used today. Containing gunpowder and a zinc alloy used to create a smaller explosion than would be previously reached with pure gunpowder components in the 1950s
  Plastic strips, similar to disks, but arranged in a line, often with means of attaching singular strips to one another
caption: Plastic ring ammunition
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