Article: Glue-gun shoot-out.

"You can pay for one of these glue guns just fixing things on a Saturday afternoon," the enthusiastic clerk at the home center told me as I picked up a sleek-looking model and checked its handling.

Even more enthusiastic was some of the copy on the packing cartons. The German-made Steinel gun's box, for example, boldly proclaimed, "It glues simply everything."

My recollection of the glue guns of a few years ago was of handles that got uncomfortably hot and of hot glue leaking out of the nozzle when I didn't want it to--usually onto something I didn't want glued. And I seem to remember not being able to glue big things because my gun wouldn't melt glue ...

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