Hutch
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Hmmmmm... just one. I 'spect it'd be the Solothurn 20mm A/T rifle. Thanks for the idea, John Ross.
If you could go back in time...
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armoredman
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Eastern front, 1945. SVT 40, MG42, STG44, P38, MP40, PPSh....etc.
Chuck Jennings
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I would pick up one each of brand spanking new USGI issue weapons during 1944!!
Eskimo Jim
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1850s-60s:
I'd go for a S&W No1, a couple Colt Walkers, the first Henry rifle, a spenser, and a Sharps. I'd also try to get a couple of the Confederate copies of Colt's revolvers. I believe that very few of them were made, hence rare and very valuable. Davy Crocket's muzzle loader if possible.
In the 1910s-30s era, a Thompson 1927 (I forget the exact model), Colt 1911, S&W registered Magnum, and a first run Browning BAR. A couple of Holland and Holland double rifles, fancy engraved shotguns etc.
1940s-50s a Grease gun, Sten, Sturmgewher (sp?) and a MG42, S&W 44 Magnum, anything belt fed.
I'd also try to get stock in S&W, Colt, Winchester, Remington, Browning, Ruger, etc. Just give me $500 worth of gold to bring back to the 1800s or early 1900s.
I doubt that I'd change the political situation at the time regardless of how appalling it is to us in modern times. The consequences of altering history might seem an improvement however, if such evil actions as slavery, assinations of a President etc, you don't know if a greater evil would have filled its place. Right or wrong, I believe that both the accomplishments and the sins of this country have made this country a great place and a beacon of hope and freedom to millions of people.
Trying to influence the Amendments to the US Constitution would be rather delicate in my opinion. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers were written to convince the common person to adopt the Constitution or not. Stronger language for any part of the Constitution could result in none of it being adopted.
-Jim
I'd go for a S&W No1, a couple Colt Walkers, the first Henry rifle, a spenser, and a Sharps. I'd also try to get a couple of the Confederate copies of Colt's revolvers. I believe that very few of them were made, hence rare and very valuable. Davy Crocket's muzzle loader if possible.
In the 1910s-30s era, a Thompson 1927 (I forget the exact model), Colt 1911, S&W registered Magnum, and a first run Browning BAR. A couple of Holland and Holland double rifles, fancy engraved shotguns etc.
1940s-50s a Grease gun, Sten, Sturmgewher (sp?) and a MG42, S&W 44 Magnum, anything belt fed.
I'd also try to get stock in S&W, Colt, Winchester, Remington, Browning, Ruger, etc. Just give me $500 worth of gold to bring back to the 1800s or early 1900s.
I doubt that I'd change the political situation at the time regardless of how appalling it is to us in modern times. The consequences of altering history might seem an improvement however, if such evil actions as slavery, assinations of a President etc, you don't know if a greater evil would have filled its place. Right or wrong, I believe that both the accomplishments and the sins of this country have made this country a great place and a beacon of hope and freedom to millions of people.
Trying to influence the Amendments to the US Constitution would be rather delicate in my opinion. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers were written to convince the common person to adopt the Constitution or not. Stronger language for any part of the Constitution could result in none of it being adopted.
-Jim
The Weapon:
Nice Big Rock
The Place:
Garden of Eden
The Time:
Just before lunchtime on the last really good day.
The Recipient:
Anyone speaking with a forked tongue.
Of course if I'm not limited to period pieces, I'd ask to borrow one of Dave McCracken's social 870's and make sure to get the job done right.
Nice Big Rock
The Place:
Garden of Eden
The Time:
Just before lunchtime on the last really good day.
The Recipient:
Anyone speaking with a forked tongue.
Of course if I'm not limited to period pieces, I'd ask to borrow one of Dave McCracken's social 870's and make sure to get the job done right.
silent one
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Hmmmm, I think my weapon of choice would be the 1942 issue Singer 1911 A-1, of which there were only 500 issued. I can just imagine what a new in box Singer would be worth today. I have heard that one in average condition will bring $35,000+ today.
good luck, and be safe.
SILENT ONE
good luck, and be safe.
SILENT ONE
El Cid
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***I'd like to rescue Davy Crockett's rifle from the Alamo.***
You are too late. That rifle is in the museum at the Arkansas state house in Little Rock.
That is, unless x42 had it melted down.
You are too late. That rifle is in the museum at the Arkansas state house in Little Rock.
That is, unless x42 had it melted down.
Fudgie Ghost
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I'd go back in time about 25 minutes and get another cookie. . .
Mmmmm. . . chocolate mint.
Mmmmm. . . chocolate mint.
The_Antibubba
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Sixteenth Century Japanese swords sound good, but I'd rather liberate some Stingers from the mid-80's Afganis. Those aren't in the CA penal code. 
If I can take stuff back into time, I vote for a few truckloads of AK's, another truckload of "spam cans", and Aaron Zelman, and we'll set up the Northern California Free State.
If I can take stuff back into time, I vote for a few truckloads of AK's, another truckload of "spam cans", and Aaron Zelman, and we'll set up the Northern California Free State.
Preacherman
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I don't think so... The Arkansas state house might have a rifle owned by Davy Crockett, but AFAIK the one he used in the defence of the Alamo was lost. Think of the memories - personal and for a nation - that that rifle would hold...
HankB
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ANY weapon? Surprised nobody mentioned Excalibur . . . or maybe Thor's hammer.
Or maybe go back to about 33 AD (have to research the date, calendars have changed a bit) to a place in the Middle East called Golgotha, and snag a very specific Roman spear . . .
Less exotic?
Maybe a nice Samurai sword by Masamune . . . or buy up a mess of DE rifles shortly after the Kynoch ammo for them began to run out, but before other makers came on line . . . they could be had cheap back then, and I missed it.
Or maybe go back to about 33 AD (have to research the date, calendars have changed a bit) to a place in the Middle East called Golgotha, and snag a very specific Roman spear . . .
Less exotic?
Maybe a nice Samurai sword by Masamune . . . or buy up a mess of DE rifles shortly after the Kynoch ammo for them began to run out, but before other makers came on line . . . they could be had cheap back then, and I missed it.
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Dean Speir
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Ah, the ol' way-back machine fantasy!
Okay, I'll play…
1955: a brand new Whitney Wolverine, the original rimfire raygun.
1989: a Ruger X-GI… and I'd do my damnedest to get a "White Paper" out before Patrick Purdy went into that Stockton schoolyard, to counter Josh Sugarmann's brilliant and thoroughly deceitful Fall 1988 VPC strategy paper anticipating just such an event. One of the things that "White Paper" would urge would have been to not waste time trying to educate the media that Purdy's Kalashnikov was not an "assault rifle," because they didn't care, #1, and, #2, they happily created a new term, "assault weapon," and kept kicking the crap out of us anyhow.
Okay, I'll play…
1955: a brand new Whitney Wolverine, the original rimfire raygun.
1989: a Ruger X-GI… and I'd do my damnedest to get a "White Paper" out before Patrick Purdy went into that Stockton schoolyard, to counter Josh Sugarmann's brilliant and thoroughly deceitful Fall 1988 VPC strategy paper anticipating just such an event. One of the things that "White Paper" would urge would have been to not waste time trying to educate the media that Purdy's Kalashnikov was not an "assault rifle," because they didn't care, #1, and, #2, they happily created a new term, "assault weapon," and kept kicking the crap out of us anyhow.
Hmm...1910, methinks.
A visit with the Master John Browning(maybe suggesting good high visability sights?) as he completed the designs for the 1911. Put in an order for two or three from Colt...one highly engraved. Invest in the 1911 program, and maybe suggest the 'Detective Special' concept, and invest in that too. Bop up to 1918, pick up my Colts(and a pair of BAR's) and a trip to North American Arms(of Quebec) and buy whatever 1911's they have handy(they only made 100!!). No doubt buy some other Colts, SAA and New Service revolvers, a couple of 1905 .45's, etc.
I like the previously mentioned visit to our national forefathers to re-write the 2nd ammendment so it was UNMISTAKABLE in purpose(might as well snag a Pennslvania Rifle while I am there). (Oops!! I must have left the plans for the percussion cap, metallic cartridge, breechloading rifle, and assembly line production with them...too bad for the British!!)
Ahh, sooooo many choices!!
Jercamp45
A visit with the Master John Browning(maybe suggesting good high visability sights?) as he completed the designs for the 1911. Put in an order for two or three from Colt...one highly engraved. Invest in the 1911 program, and maybe suggest the 'Detective Special' concept, and invest in that too. Bop up to 1918, pick up my Colts(and a pair of BAR's) and a trip to North American Arms(of Quebec) and buy whatever 1911's they have handy(they only made 100!!). No doubt buy some other Colts, SAA and New Service revolvers, a couple of 1905 .45's, etc.
I like the previously mentioned visit to our national forefathers to re-write the 2nd ammendment so it was UNMISTAKABLE in purpose(might as well snag a Pennslvania Rifle while I am there). (Oops!! I must have left the plans for the percussion cap, metallic cartridge, breechloading rifle, and assembly line production with them...too bad for the British!!)
Ahh, sooooo many choices!!
Jercamp45
winstonsmith
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Mjolnir.
DMK
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I'd go back to around 1912, pick up a few brand new 1911s and dig up a few Colt SAAs in nice shape. Keep one of each and sell the rest off for a nice tidy sum.
mountainclmbr
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OK, call me selfish, but I would find a reason to go back in time, in Mass. I would sneak a brick of firecrackers and disrupt o'l Joe Kennedy's neighborhood on the night that Teddy Kennedy was to be conceived. I would bring back any saturday night special just to make it a legit exchange.
Abominable No-Man
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Hmmm......does anyone know what happened to the pistol that Avrip Princip used to shoot the Archduke and started WWI with? THAT would be a good one.
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