If you could have any 20 guns

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I'll play. Let's see:

12 ga. shotgun (short barrel)
12 ga. shotgun (hunting barrel)
Lever .22
Bolt .22
Kit .22 revolver
Full sized .22 revolver
3-4" .357 DA revolver
Single action .357 4 5/8"
.38/.357 snub
SKS
Lever gun in .30-30
Bolt gun in .223
Bolt gun in .30-06
Lever gun in .45-70
Mousegun in .380 ACP


That's fifteen, with a little redundancy for .22 rimfire, shotguns and potential carry guns. I could add more but they would be things that overlap in function or have just minor differences from something already present. I think I could do most anything I would want with the above. And probably get by without either the SKS or .30-30, the mouse gun and the SA .357 just fine.

I guess I could add the obligatory AR to the list, but I've never been big on them. If I end up liking .45 Colt as much as I think, I could add a revolver and rifle combo in that caliber.


It wouldn't be that hard to accumulate 20 if you believe in redundancy and multiple copies/versions of things.
 
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GE-Mini-Gun said:
In no particular order…

  1. Plasma Rifle in the 40 Watt range
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Is that to go with your reverberating carbonizer with mutate capability? :cool:

OK, I'd like a complete set of U.S. issued small arms - just infantry muskets, rifles, and pistols.
Plus, a few that I used to own but stupidly let go:
* S&W M19 6" with target hammer, target trigger, Patridge front sight
* S&W M28 6"
* S&W M36 3"
* S&W M629 5" (I think it was designated 629)
* High Standard Citation 5" (the one with 1911 grip angle)
* Kahr P9 Covert
 
So if I may speak in general terms, here's what I consider a minimum battery.

12 gauge pump action shotgun with multiple barrels: 28" vent rib with removable chokes, 24" rifled slug with cantilever scope base and 4X Leupold, 18.5" cylinder bore
.284 bolt action rifle; anything from 7mm-08 to 7mm Remington Magnum would do
.357 magnum revolver, 4" barrel
.40 S&W or 9mm semiauto pistol; maybe a Glock 23 with a 9mm conversion barrel
.22 LR pistol
.22 LR rifle

I could do with six if I had to. First additions beyond that in priority order would be:

.44 magnum revolver, 5.5" barrel
.223 bolt action rifle
.375 Ruger bolt action rifle
AR15

All in ten cover all the bases. Everything beyond that is gravy.
 
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hq said:
Was this supposed to be logistically realistic? I mean, while the pair of Krupp K5 railroad guns I mentioned would probably fit on my back yard in a pinch, the nearest railroad tracks with a full size turntable and sufficient load carrying capacity are some ten miles away. :)

Then again, there already IS a (demilled) 88mm Krupp FlaK 36 a couple of blocks from my "town house" apartment, this exact one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anti-aircraft_cannon_January_02_2010.jpg . It's been there since the Winter War and shot down numerous soviet bombers during the course of war. I lived nearby when I was a kid and that was one of our favorite playthings in the neighborhood.

I've wanted one (or a battery) of my own ever since...
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Hi! How's the weather over there? Cold I bet. Anyway, yeah I looked at this question from a logistics point of view. If we are doing fiction, why not just say a Phaser or a couple of Quantum Torpedoes?? My wish for a Winchester 1873 one of one thousand would cost millions, but is theoretically possible and would fit in my gun safe.
 
HowieG said:
Hi! How's the weather over there? Cold I bet. Anyway, yeah I looked at this question from a logistics point of view. If we are doing fiction, why not just say a Phaser or a couple of Quantum Torpedoes?? My wish for a Winchester 1873 one of one thousand would cost millions, but is theoretically possible and would fit in my gun safe.
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Krupp K5 is very, very real, as is FlakK 88. And if either of those should end up in my possession, I most likely have the means to transport and store them. But then again, these threads are hypothetical and it's quite unlikely that either US Army Ordnance Museum or Batterie Todt Museum would donate or sell me either of the surviving K5:s in existence.
 
I'll bet that there are more than two Krupp K5s out there.
After all, they made around 25 of them.
They'll probably find a few of them hidden away in the old Soviet Union or buried somewhere in what had been German-held lands... .
 
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theotherwaldo said:
I'll bet that there are more than two Krupp K5s out there.
After all, they made around 25 of them.
They'll probably find a few of them hidden away in the old Soviet Union or buried somewhere in what had been German-held lands... .
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Probably covered in newspaper and cosmoline so you can't recognize them.
 
I'm trying to get down to 20 guns. We're retired and looking to build a new house in the next year or two that will only have room for one gun safe, so I have to get rid of the 2 other safes full.
 
Fine Figure of a Man:

Any members here with over 3,000 posts probably have at least 2-3 guns (or just one, after selling everything else)-- but I easily could be mistaken.
The govt. has probably figured out (by themselves) that most people on THR have at least one or two guns. And on TheFiringLine, Gunboards, the old AKfiles, SigTalk, CZ Forums etc.

----If thieves/hackers who read gun websites can figure out where our home is, that seems to be the actual, potential threat. But with our home security systems and thick, :cool:very heavy safes (this allows two Himalayan cats instead of dogs), they might not bother.

The "govt." might be savvy enough to expect regular contributors on gun websites to own at least a couple? Even Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle might draw that conclusion.
 
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Ignition Override said:
Fine Figure of a Man:

Any members here with over 3,000 posts probably have at least 2-3 guns (or just one, after selling everything else)-- but I easily could be mistaken.
The govt. has probably figured out (by themselves) that most people on THR have at least one or two guns. And on TheFiringLine, Gunboards, the old AKfiles, SigTalk, CZ Forums etc.

----If thieves/hackers who read gun websites can figure out where our home is, that seems to be the actual, potential threat. But with our home security systems and thick, :cool:very heavy safes (this allows two Himalayan cats instead of dogs), they might not bother.

The "govt." might be savvy enough to expect regular contributors on gun websites to own at least a couple? Even Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle might draw that conclusion.
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So you are saying that the government is as bright as Barney and Gomer? I think Barney and Gomer would be insulted.
 
HowieG: You so funny GI ! Good sense of humor. :cool:

To put my perspective in a nutshell, as long as the stent in my Widowmaker heart artery stays strong, clear and functions, I'm not worried about chickens**t, or which series of X-ray goggles are issued to any X-Files agents in our area.

They know that most of people on gun forums are simply curious, are wannabe gun owners, and don't even Own a gun. Or maybe the gubmint have "Bigger Fish to fry" than watching legal gun owners twist and squirm in their paranoia about 1-3 components not "complying" with 922R etc.
When my second S&W 3rd Gen--I bought two this week-- arrives in several days...will gladly keep y'all posted. These will be my only guns-------

....but if I decide to buy me a rifle with a Big Clip !, .I'll let you fellers or gals know whether black helicopters (similar to those in the Bin Laden Raid) with special sensors enter a published Jeppesen holding pattern near us on a MEM radial/DME or database waypoint, and are issued the clearance to hold by Memphis Approach Control (was it on VHF: 125.2?),
with an EFC time of 1430, with 30 min. of holding fuel before a diversion to the filed, or requested alternate at Millington Airport "NQA" (followed by ILS approach to runway 22, with a full stop) is required....after they decide whether I exceeded a gun maximum quota.

* Actually, :cool: about nine years ago a ----federal agent ----was plinking not far from me, at a river near northeast Memphis which then was Not "off limits" for plinking near that popular bridge.
To be quite frank, he had a black, civilian AKM with him.
>> He told me that his real concern was about "Sovereign Citizens".:scrutiny:<< That's exactly what he said. No idea which agency he was with, as I carried an Enfield #4 or #5 further downstream to respect his privacy.
 
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theotherwaldo said:
They'll probably find a few of them hidden away in the old Soviet Union or buried somewhere in what had been German-held lands... .
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Very possible. Considering that just the discovery, liquidation and export of lend lease surplus warehouses in Russia landed a bunch of mint, "impossible to find" US WW II bucket list infantry and support arms in my modest collection, anything can happen. $500 Thompson SMG:s and $2000 M2HB Ma Deuces flooded the collector market overnight.

It would definitely be interesting to find out that another K5 had survived as a rusty monument or a makeshift crane in a remote village in a former soviet republic with "-stan" in its name... :)
 
Ignition Override said:
HowieG: You so funny GI ! Good sense of humor. :cool:

To put my perspective in a nutshell, as long as the stent in my Widowmaker heart artery stays strong, clear and functions, I'm not worried about chickens**t, or which series of X-ray goggles are issued to any X-Files agents in our area.

They know that most of people on gun forums are simply curious, are wannabe gun owners, and don't even Own a gun. Or maybe the gubmint have "Bigger Fish to fry" than watching legal gun owners twist and squirm in their paranoia about 1-3 components not "complying" with 922R etc.
When my second S&W 3rd Gen--I bought two this week-- arrives in several days...will gladly keep y'all posted. These will be my only guns-------

....but if I decide to buy me a rifle with a Big Clip !, .I'll let you fellers or gals know whether black helicopters (similar to those in the Bin Laden Raid) with special sensors enter a published Jeppesen holding pattern near us on a MEM radial/DME or database waypoint, and are issued the clearance to hold by Memphis Approach Control (was it on VHF: 125.2?),
with an EFC time of 1430, with 30 min. of holding fuel before a diversion to the filed, or requested alternate at Millington Airport "NQA" (followed by ILS approach to runway 22, with a full stop) is required....after they decide whether I exceeded a gun maximum quota.

* Actually, :cool: about nine years ago a ----federal agent ----was plinking not far from me, at a river near northeast Memphis which then was Not "off limits" for plinking near that popular bridge.
To be quite frank, he had a black, civilian AKM with him.
>> He told me that his real concern was about "Sovereign Citizens".:scrutiny:<< That's exactly what he said. No idea which agency he was with, as I carried an Enfield #4 or #5 further downstream to respect his privacy.
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I've watched videos of Sovereigns loudly proclaiming that they aren't subject to U.S. laws....as they are being led away in cuffs.
 
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File photo of some blackpowder stuff. The modern guns are in a gun safe.
Ruger Old Armies 1980’s
Colt Walker Uberti
Colt 1851 Uberti
Colt 1860 Uberti
Rogers and Spencer ASM
Spiller and Burr Pietta
Remington Carbine Uberti
Burnside Carbine. Circ. 1864.
 
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joed said:
Everyone always brings up a thread of "if you could only have one" threads. For something different for a change if you could have 20 guns (or even more) what would you want or have?
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1. Glock - 42
2. 365
3. FN - FiveSeven
4. Colt Peacemaker 1st Edition .45 (LC)
5. Taylor Smoke Wagon .45 (LC)

6. CZ - Hammered Coach Gun 12 gauge
7. Beretta O/U 12 gauge
8. Stoeger Coach Gun 20 gauge
9. Valmet Double in 6.5x55 & 12 gage
10. Winchester Model 12 in 12 gauge

11. SAKO Finnlight in 6.5x55
12. CZ 527 in .223
13. Marlin 39A
14. Marlin 1984 CL in .45 (LC)
15. SAKO Finnwolf in 22-250

16. Polytech Legend AK in 6.2x39
17. Colt AR in .223/5.56
18. M-1 Carbine
19. German Model 98
20. Swedish Mause Carbine 6.5x55

And here's hoping that the OP is actually Santa and this is a clever ploy to fill pile stuff under our trees...
 
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