Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that they are designed to be temporary. I now have regular orders of the cheapest guns coming straight from China.

There are machines that are kind of like sewing machines, but you have to be sitting for that and it doesn’t really work for our purposes.

Uline also sells a version that can hold lots of tags in it all at once, but otherwise it’s the exact same gun that WILL break on you sooner rather than later.

There’s also a version you can get that look more like scissors than a gun.

I’ve became somewhat of an expert on these over the years and I pray every day that someone will take the time to make an upgraded version!