Before someone else says it;
"Bring back the Mateba!"
face palm-er (and I say that as a proud, but very careful, owner
). I'd rather bring back the Manurhin MR73 than the Python; those guns were even tougher than they were good looking, unlike the vaunted Snakes. Better action for rapid DA fire than S&W and Colt put together, too (very short stroke).
Let's see if I can recall the whole list that inevitably gets generated in these threads:
-Python
-Registered Magnum
-MP412
-Mateba 6 Unica
-SPAS 12
-MR73
-C96 Mauser
-C93 Borchardt*
-K31 Target Rifle
-Beretta BM59
-STG44
-VG-1
-MP40 (heck, every German gun made before the G3)
-Solothurn MP34 (heck, every SMG made before WWII)
-Solothurn S-18/100 (import it as a .499 BMG if you have to
)
-Swiss Luger
-Finnish Lahti Pistol (heck, every antiquated gun that requires metal shapers in its construction
)
-All pre-WWII box fed LMG's in semi-auto civilian variants (BREN, BAR, etc.)
-STGW 57 (heck, every Swiss gun ever made beside their MG3 clone)
-Pre '64 Winchesters (think about the logic of that for a minute)
-Fudd guns (
) like disbanded Ruger and Remington models that were never popular beyond the 2% of people that actually hunt, and are even less so now. Bonus for original wood/blued finishes that can magically take more abuse than plastic/coated modern offerings
-Last and most important; at prices competitive with far more practical and popular designs, if not less, precisely
because they are less practical and popular
TCB
*With so few examples, and such a long time since anyone has had experience with them, I think a non-authentic repro preserving the external layout, with a modern interior to facilitate production could do surprisingly well. While the months after Red Dead Redemption was distributed would have been the most recent ideal jumping off point, many folks would love the chance to force a semi-auto into Cowboy Action Shooting events