Bring your gun....climb aboard the time machine.

[H Romberg]

I want an HK PSG1. I'd go take out an economist named John Maynard Keynes, and Karl Marx, both before they wrote anything. With them gone, the great experiments in socialism that produced the depression, WWII, and the Cold war might not have happened.

 

[stevelyn]

An FAL, with an ox cart full of ammo and loaded mags, standing shoulder to shoulder with William Wallace preparing to sack London.

 

[larry_minn]

I actually had the thought yrs ago about going back to Garden the night Christ was taken. Or when he is being taken to cross. Thing is that is NOT the way it was supposed to be.
I would bet that would be the first time my Glock would missfire.
I also would like to go back to a certain date and slash my car tires. That way I would have not been on road when oncomming car lost control and dang near killed me.

 

[Joe Demko]

Guns? You have time travel and you're worried about guns? If you want to off Hitler, strangle him as a little boy on his way home from kindergarten. Even easier, just cause a ruckus outside his parents' house the night he was conceived, a little coitus interruptus ensues, and no Fuhrer is ever born.
A bunch of you seem to like the idea of visiting one "primitive screwhead" era or another with a modern rapid fire weapon and visiting great slaughter on one side or another of famous battles. That doesn't seem too "heroic" to me, sorry. The Spartans, the men at the Alamo, and all those others were heroic because they did what they did knowing they would die in the process.

 

[JJohnston015]

I'd go wherever "Miller" was, see to it that he made it to the Supreme Court, and take a trench gun along.

 

[Crimper-D]

Buy me a ticket for a whole Special Services Sniper Team

And drop them enough in advance of the Chicom First Front Army's rout of retreat to Sensi in 1935 to set up a good ambush site - for the First Army's Chief Political Commissar = Mao Tse-tung!

 

[Penforhire]

Might be worth heading off a war, say WW I by saving Ferdinand? Of course you never know what would have happened next.

 

[JJohnston015]

Or, I'd go to where the Founders were debating the Bill of Rights, make up some story about where I'd come from and that we'd tried the same thing, but we "overestimated politicians' honor", and the system failed, and that they were about to do the same thing. I'd do my best to make sure they were much more explicit and detailed in laying out restrictions on Federal power. As far as a gun goes, I'd probably take something not too far beyond them, maybe a black powder cartridge bolt action, just to remind them to expicitly cover tecnological advances.

 

[AmericanFreeBird]

M1A (semi auto) and the American Revolutionary War. I think after we kicked King Georges buttocks good I'd get involved in an air-tight Bill of Rights / Constitutional role.

 

[TallPine]

Doesn't matter which gun.

Just drop me off somewhere in Illinois in the 1850s, and I would have nailed a long legged itinerant lawyer guy before he got to be president and destroyed our republic.

Can't believe no one else has thought of this one ...

 

[TechBrute]

Screw the gun, I'd go back and convince the Founders to leave the preamble out of the Second, since "stupid people in the future don't get it!"

 

[cordex]

I actually had the thought yrs ago about going back to Garden the night Christ was taken. Or when he is being taken to cross. Thing is that is NOT the way it was supposed to be.

Shades of an old SNL skit.

"Stop killing Judas!"

I'm surprised no one has suggested that they'd like to go back to the first ape with a higher forehead that looked at a rock in a different way (or Adam, depending on your view of how things started) and start gunning down anything that displayed anywhere near human intelligence.

Hey Mike ... where are you?

 

[JShirley]

TallPine,

Believe me, I've thought of it. "The Great Socialist" would be next on my list, as well as "The Butcher", and many others.

So many inequities, so little time.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Speaking of shooting Santa Anna off his horse, one rifleman had hidden in the tower of the Alamo and waited until Santa Ana appeared. From about 500 or so yards away, he fired but the shot whistled harmless over the brave general/president's head. Frightened, the stalwart and manly Santa Ana turned and fled to the safety of his camp.

Scoped Knight Armament SR-25 at Cowpens. Die, Tarleton, die. But then if he died, he wouldn't have written his book (complete with B.S.) about the Southern Campaign.

 

[winstonsmith]

How about the era of dueling pistols? Take a glock 31, and you'll be the coolest guy in court.

This one is more recent, but I'd take PSG-1 and take care two computer nerds long before they got into Columbine High School.

Go back to when slaves were being unloaded from ships. I'd take a PSG-1 suppressed and loaded w/ JHPs and take out all the overseers on the first few ships I see. That would put a dent into the slave trade.

 

[HBK]

Civil War with an M-14. Defend state's rights and convince Davis to end slavery.

 

[rageman]

winstonsmith had this to say:
This one is more recent, but I'd take PSG-1 and take care two computer nerds long before they got into Columbine High School.

As a gun-loving "computer nerd", this statement offends my sensibilities, good sir. I don't think those two punks should be lumped in with us computer nerds--we have higher standards.

Back on topic, all those who say "hitler" or "revolutionary war" or something else along those lines, you need to realize that those events, while tragic in some ways, are absolutely critical to what our world is today. Like CGofMP, the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder." The only "recent" event that I would go back to would be to stop 9/11, simply for the problems with civil rights that it has caused. The paranoid inside of me, however, says that I couldn't do anything really--a situation like "12 Monkeys," where anyone I try to enlist to help me treats me like crazy. Or the government would try to steal my time machine.
More realistically, I would simply wait and load up with currency such as gold, and go back to the -20's or -30's (before the NFA could get passed) and get all those cool guns that I want for my collection, and take them back with me, sans paper trail.

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

If someone wiped out Hitler, I probably wouldn't be here (Grampa graduating college without that hiatus to go and save democracy would never have allowed him to meet Granma etc etc)...
That said, I'd probably grab a G3/SG-1 and go back to WW2 to take out Chairman Mao.

Then I could wait a few years and travel the world killing the tyrants of today while they would still be in diapers... Osama, Yassir Arafat and Saddam for example.

In addition almost anyone else in a position of power today or in the past 20 years was either a child or insignificant and relatively vulnerable in the time period from the outbreak of WW2 to the 1960s. Man, I would need to bring a lot of ammo, cause I could end up having one hell of a long "hit list".

 

[Justin]

I'd pop back in time to around 1760 or so to Boston, MA and see if I could hang out with James Otis. I'd convince him not to destroy his records and writings and push him to be more vocal about personal liberty. (Though that might not have been possible. )

Of course, if I happened to be at a particular ale house on a particular evening in 1769 when a particular John Robinson appeared, I might just have to respond with a particular magazine full of Gold Dots when he drew his sword.

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

I'd have to bring my mossberg to the "shotguns on sunday incident, where the townsfolk of bakersfield and the BPD had a running gun battle with a criminal.

I forgot the guys name, but it'd be neat to see chester avenue as it was in the 1890s.

 

[556A2]

I'm with Tallpine, also go back to December 9, 1879 and toss a little Man of Steel into a frozen lake.

 

[Fly320s]

I'd take the most evil-uber-sheeple-scaring-assault-AR15 loaded with a mil-dot night vision scope, laser designator, white light, and IR illuminator on picatinny rail back to 1776.

More importantly, I'd take every piece of recording equipment available at Best Buy. Then I'd sit down with our Founding Fathers to grill them on every aspect of human rights, firearms and the Constitution. "Hey, Jefferson, what do you think about this AR15? How about concealed carry? How about owning maching guns?"

I want it all on tape.

 

[capnrik]

I wish I could be noble...

But the truth is, I'd be selfish. Since I've got a sneaking suspicion that for some reason, I wouldn't be able to change the outcome of history very much, I'd just like to take my son back and introduce him to his grandfather and a duckblind.We wouldn't have to bring a gun. Dad would have 'em ready.

 

[HBK]

Actually cap, there's not one thing wrong with that idea.

 

[Recon By Fire]

Wow we really want to kill

It is sort of funny that you all feel that we should have gone back in time and killed all the bad people (Hitler, Stallin, Gore, Etc.) If these people had really been killed, our past would have greatly changed. We would be in a totally different place today. History is better left alone to be studied and learned from.

BUT

If I had to, it would deffinaly be a Smith and Wesson 500 and his name would have been John Wilkes Booth.

Hehe