P5 Guy
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Buy a quarter section build a small house and make a nice rifle-pistol range in my backyard. Fenced off to avoid harming trespassers. Oh. I'll need a golf kart for target refreshing.
If you had a $1,000,000,000; gun shopping spree - Dumbest Thread Ever
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Sorry, you missed the rarest one. Serial number 1 was sold at auction in 2010 for $80,000.
JR24
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I’d buy a nice custom 1911 and .308 AR. Maybe a spare Glock or two.
And enough ammo to keep me, my kids, grand kids and their grand kids shooting happily for life.
And enough ammo to keep me, my kids, grand kids and their grand kids shooting happily for life.
CapnMac
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That's thinking a tad small--go ahead and get the full section, 40 acres, probably only US$5-8 million, which would leave a 'mere' $990 million.
Now, a one-of-each is going to need a facility in the sort of dimensions of the Cody Firearms Museum, probably 50-60 thousand square feet. At $350/sf, that would run to around US$21 million.
A billionaire could have a copy of everything he wanted. Even the most expensive historical firearms are a drop in the bucket, same for anything else that's legal to own.
I probably wouldn't really shoot that much more than I do already. I'd be learning new fun skills from the best in the business and going on lots of adventure trips until I got tired of it and settled down to start a business.
I probably wouldn't really shoot that much more than I do already. I'd be learning new fun skills from the best in the business and going on lots of adventure trips until I got tired of it and settled down to start a business.
CapnMac
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"Came across a billions dollars."
For a mental picture, that's 10 million hundred-dollar bills.
Or, 500,000 bundles of $2000 each (twenty c-notes each)
If we call the bundles 6 x 2.625 x 0.5, that's 7.875 cubic inches per each, 3.9 million cubic inches, 2278 cubic feet, call that 84 cubic yards of bills . . .
For a more practical measure, that's 15 feet x 15 feet x 10 feet of bills.
For @Mark_Mark , at today's $2027 price for gold, a billion is 493,339 troy ounces, 33,829 pounds, 16 short tons.
For a mental picture, that's 10 million hundred-dollar bills.
Or, 500,000 bundles of $2000 each (twenty c-notes each)
If we call the bundles 6 x 2.625 x 0.5, that's 7.875 cubic inches per each, 3.9 million cubic inches, 2278 cubic feet, call that 84 cubic yards of bills . . .
For a more practical measure, that's 15 feet x 15 feet x 10 feet of bills.
For @Mark_Mark , at today's $2027 price for gold, a billion is 493,339 troy ounces, 33,829 pounds, 16 short tons.
DeepSouth
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I’d buy the guns attached to James Bond’s cars, then use them for my daily drivers. And an M2, other than that I’d probably just buy ammo.
On the opposite end of things, I have a Hanover arms 12ga I wouldn’t sell for 10B, my great, great, great grandfather bought it new, in 1872 It was the gun my dad killed his first deer with. Lots of family history in it, and it’s worth more than money.
On the opposite end of things, I have a Hanover arms 12ga I wouldn’t sell for 10B, my great, great, great grandfather bought it new, in 1872 It was the gun my dad killed his first deer with. Lots of family history in it, and it’s worth more than money.
CapnMac
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Typically non-running examples with welded-up breeches.
Running, restored examples of an M-60A1 are relatively inexpensive, only around US$40-60K (with dewat main guns)--the trick is you need around $175K of lo-boy to transport them after purchase (and a military HMET and lowboy are even steeper).
A g17 weights in at approximately 22.78 troy oz. Lots of extra to go around.
hawg
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I can't think of many current production guns I want let alone a billion bucks worth. 99% of them I wouldn't give a dime a dozen for.
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Shaped like a Glock 17! didn’t say size of a Glock 17! wonder how big that would be?
Capybara
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My thinking is you don't need to buy every single one, just enough to block votes for new infringements. Then systematically begin eradicating every gun law in the state. With enough money, it could be done.
Commies will give up their lack of morals for enough cash, I mean look at who is in charge of the state government I live in and look at who is on the take in Washington.
adcoch1
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I wonder if the gau 30 mm from the a10 can be purchased separately from the plane... Ah, heck, I'll take it with the plane to put in the lobby of my new man cave/gun range. And that'll be next to my new gun manufacturer to build whatever guns I want. And a primer manufacturer too. If there's money left, a 44 cal revolver of every manufacturer and model and barrel length. I have a simple but expensive mindset...
But I can think of some I want. I wouldn’t want a billion dollar’s worth. My estimate was saying that for only $11,000,000 you could buy one of each new production guns. Not be king aware of Holland and Holland or guns made from meteors, I think the estimate would have to go up a little.
That said, a lot of models would be similar enough to the point of repetitive, and I wouldn’t want 90% of what would be available. If I could afford the custom shop version, why buy the base model?
I would start my own firearms company. What I lack in gunsmithing and engineering skills, I would make up for in paying people with gunsmithing skills and engineering skills. The result would be firearms built to my exact specifications, instead of finding the closest match of what other manufacturers produce.
Vern Humphrey
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Move to Arkansas and you can get a full section (640 acres) and enough change to build your house and range.
(I bought my quarter section for $8,000 -- in 1969)
hawg
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I wouldn't want any plastic guns or most high priced guns including H&H doubles etc. No Hillary hole S&W. No Kimbers, Les Bear etc.
CapnMac
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Well, Glock alleges a G17 with magazine is 705 grams. Which is 22.66 troy ounces. That's US$50,010 at $2027/oz.
For a scaling factor, let's divide 493,339 by 22.66. That gives 21771x
Multiplying the 204mm length gives around 4441 meters, around 14,570 feet long, around 2.75 miles
Multiplying the 139mm height gives around 3026 meters, around 9928 feet, one and 8/10 miles
Mind the 16 tons of gold might put a dent in the world-wide supply projected to be 4533 tons in 2023.
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Jezzzz! man! you did the math!Well, Glock alleges a G17 with magazine is 705 grams. Which is 22.66 troy ounces. That's US$50,010 at $2027/oz.
For a scaling factor, let's divide 493,339 by 22.66. That gives 21771x
Multiplying the 204mm length gives around 4441 meters, around 14,570 feet long, around 2.75 miles
Multiplying the 139mm height gives around 3026 meters, around 9928 feet, one and 8/10 miles
Mind the 16 tons of gold might put a dent in the world-wide supply projected to be 4533 tons in 2023.
Capybara
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We really need more parameters on the stupidity of this thread for it to be effective. Can you only spend the billion on guns and weapons
or can we spend it any way we see fit on anything? Because I would spend it very differently if we didn't have to spend it all on guns and weapons.
My collection has been as high as 150 guns and to a point, it does become repetitive.
or can we spend it any way we see fit on anything? Because I would spend it very differently if we didn't have to spend it all on guns and weapons.
My collection has been as high as 150 guns and to a point, it does become repetitive.
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I’m the rule maker and you can spend the Billion on anything with the letter G U N S & sometimes Y . in the word
I would say you can spend it however you want, but to get access to the balance of a billion, you first have to buy one of every model production gun available to the general public. That will leave you a poor miser with only about $980,000,000 left to your name, or whatever corporate name you choose to hide your wealth. Not to be too cruel, you don’t have to keep all of them after you buy them. Sell them, give them away, or whatever, your choice.
After that, you are free to construct your 100 yard underground rifle range on your 1,000’s of rural acres, only accessible by your helicopter or private plane.
If every thing you buy has guns, and sometimes gunsy in it, that would be most excellent. “That sure is a gunsy looking Ferrari you have there, d31tc!” “Why thank you! I thought it would go nicely with my Aston Martin DB5 with decked out with Gatling guns that I use to drive around my ten thousand acre gun range.
PWC
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Get a larger custom home with bank type vault, and safe rooms and enough land for backstopped 100 yd shooting range. A couple more rifles and several handguns. Pay off kids Ed. loans and mortgages. Small gold and silver coins so when the shtf I won't have to spend an ingot for a loaf of bread. Hunker down for the Progressive, commie, Liberal Dems because they're going to keep on comming....
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