If you had a time machine…?

I think I'd go back to around 1950. Go out and visit Elmer Keith. Maybe see about getting invited along on some hunting trips.

I'd then see if I could get Fred Huntington for a couple days and we'd go shooting and flying and have some good old times.

Then I'd go up to AK, round coopers landing and have a visit with Johnson and do some Kodiak bear hunting with his 450 Alaskan converted 71 winchester.

Might look up PO Ackley and see bout some adventure.

Do I have to come back?

Megawatt maker said:

Tough choice that one.....

Part of me would want to go back and sit down with ole Tom Jefferson and tell him that the party he was about to found would morph into an anti American communist monster...and he may not want to go there....(politics...I know. That's all I'll comment on it)

Another part of me loves the idea of sitting with John Browning in his shop...my gosh the knowledge you would gain!

The idea of going back to buy class 3 in mass has its appeal also...but I think I'd rather talk to those who put that Amendment into the FOPA...change their mind...which would make buying full auto moot..

Go back and tell General Short to have his fighters in the air by 0645.....or tell Halsey to have his carrier air groups over Pearl at the same time.....or northwest of the islands....

Tell the Rangers there were no guns on top of the point...so no need to climb that cliff....

Tell Truman to let MacArthur actually fight the war in 52....

The choices.....

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I'm with you on the Jefferson thing except ..I would bring him back to straighten these fools out.....

I'd be inclined to try to go back and befriend Picasso or Monet. Buy a couple of paintings with perhaps a note for authentication, and stash them away. I wouldn't have to acquire crates of guns then, because I could afford anything I wanted now.

Gun-related? Pop back to about 1805. London. Order cased pairs of duelling pistols from Wogdon & Barton, John Manton, and probably Durs Egg...all three sets made to my hand measurements and sight preferences, all three in 54-bore (about .45 caliber). Barrels about 10 inches (longer than the usual 9 inches).

Maybe also place an order for a shotgun with Westley Richards...to pair with the gentleman who currently owns S/N 4 (the oldest Westley Richards known to survive).

I would go back to the night I had dinner with Elmer Balance after a gun show and he tried to talk me into buying a bunch of his then-newly made M1A rifles. I'd listen a bit closer this time.

I recall this. When the AWB ban was to come into play, I went to a gun show. I thought that I should buy a couple of extra Glock 19 mags. A dealer offered me a dealer's box of 20 mags for what I thought was an exorbitant price of $16/mag. I declined and just bought two. Later they were selling for $120 a piece. Not the greatest return but something for a gun related time machine.

Upon further reflection, it would have little to do with guns ( provided that we would keep or memories, on which to ...Improve Things...),

but if the time machine could find the correct "Steven Hawking worm holes", guns would not be ignored.

Colt, all the Colts I could get. (Sell them here at this time and Buy old Smith & Wesson’s…. Just because)

Then- Take Elmer Keith’s 44spl’s and his Typewriter/pens Misc items… So he Couldn’t claim What the 44 associates worked on as his.

I would go back to 1991 and tell my dad I loved him one last time before he died.

How about some first generation SA's....?

Elkins45 said:

If you had one trip in a time machine what firearm related thing would you do?

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Id go back to 1938 and Make sure WE won the Miller case at the Supreme Court to get the GCA of 1934 declared unconstitutional!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

In 1938, the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas ruled the statute unconstitutional in United States v. Miller. The defendant Miller had been arrested for possession of an unregistered short double-barreled shotgun, and for "unlawfully ... transporting [it] in interstate commerce from Claremore, Oklahoma to Siloam Springs, Arkansas" which perfected the crime.[49] The government's argument was that the short barreled shotgun was not a military-type weapon and thus not a "militia" weapon protected by the Second Amendment, from federal infringement. The District Court agreed with Miller's argument that the shotgun was legal under the Second Amendment.

The District Court ruling was overturned on a direct appeal to the United States Supreme Court (see United States v. Miller). No brief was filed on behalf of the defendants, and the defendants themselves did not appear before the Supreme Court. Miller himself had been murdered one month prior to the Supreme Court's decision. No evidence that such a firearm was "ordinary military equipment" had been presented at the trial court (apparently because the case had been thrown out—at the defendants' request—before evidence could be presented), although two Supreme Court justices at the time had been United States Army officers during World War I and may have had personal knowledge of the use of such weapons in combat. The Supreme Court indicated it could not take judicial notice of such a contention.

The Supreme Court reversed the District Court and held that the NFA provision (criminalizing possession of certain firearms) was not in violation of the Second Amendment's restriction and therefore was constitutional.

Subsequent rulings have been allowed to stand, indicating that short-barreled shotguns are generally recognized as ordinary military equipment if briefs are filed (e.g., see: Cases v. United States),[50] describing use of short-barreled shotguns in specialized military units.