What Kind Of Gun Would You Like To See?

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Not sure anyone reading this thread will know the significance of this but....

I would like one of these but with carbon nanotube supercaps. The nanotube upgrade will probably be economical in 10-20 years or so.

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I would settle for revisiting a couple of firearms that have been done before, but a bit differently

a new/different rugged and reliable design for a 357 mag pump action carbine made of steel and wood (not just another Lighting relabeled), at other than commemorative limited run pricing and not CAS/SASS stylized (Remington 7600 carbine comes only in 30-06 for example)

a Browning Lo-Wall single shot variant with modernized styling, yet made of steel and wood, at other than commemorative limited run or custom built pricing, probably in 223, or maybe in 22 WMR.. (last run was priced for collector investors at twice-the-price, not shooters)

or maybe a Browning BLR '81 straight stock in 357 mag, just because
 
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Here's another one:

Ever hear of those .22 conversion kits for the Mini-14 that let you shoot .22 LR? It should be possible, mutatis mutandis, to make a kit like that for the M-14 that would let you shoot .30 carbine cartridges. That would be pretty cool.
 
1. A Ruger LCR in .327 with 6 shots
2. 9x18 Mak in a new polymer frame, small and light
3. A decent DA/SA .22LR/Mag 9 or 10 round with good sights and interchangeable cylinders - that wasn't a PITA to reload
 
GrammatonCleric said:
Texasbill, I was thinking of basically an 1896 Mauser in 10mm, but with a better grip because I don't like the broom-handle. Maybe have the grip be more along the lines of Mal's handgun from Firefly.
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Gotta agree with you there. Not sure what they were thinking of when they came up with the "broomhandle" grip.
 
I'd like to see more left hand friendly revolvers, like the Charter Arms Southpaw, where the cylinder swings to the right side of the frame. I'd also like to see it a wide variety of calibers and barrel lengths. Pretty much anything other than the current offering of .38 2".
 
1. A beefed up Beretta 92 (stainless steel with a rail) series pistol chambered in 10mm

2. The same as #1 chambered in .38 Super

3. A Marlin lever action chambered for S&W 460 Magnum
 
Take a 26 inch fluted heavy barrel in 6.5 mm, attach the action from a sig 556 on it (gas powered rod with a five position gas valve and the return spring wrapped round the rod) and drop the whole thing into a bullpup stock. OAL under 31 inches. Cartage? Hand loaded in a 6.5 x 55 case. The long barrel gives the system time to build velocity so the pressures and temperatures stay low.
I just gotta love the idea of a system that provides 140 g bullets at 2000 ft/sec at 500 yards that doesn’t eat barrels or beat you to death.
 
Nothing too original for me really - just old ideas that need revisited.

I'd like to have a centerfire repeating rifle firing a substantial cartridge that comes from the factory in a take-down configuration. Options in this area are limited currently to the obscenely expensive and obscure or to AR-15's. Sure, you can pop the pins and have a smaller package - but is it really a take down?

I'd also like a falling block exposed hammer single shot .22LR or WMR rifle that's sized to be used by an adult.

And I'd like NFA 34 to cease to exist, as well as the 86 MG ban. Get rid of that and we'll have this conversation again.
 
Lever-action 1894-style carbines in 9mm and .45ACP. I've heard of these done in the past but nothing as a full production item.
 
2) another revolution in pocket guns. Either something like the NAA minis, but with a double action trigger and trigger gaurd, or a 5 shot snubby in 327Federal. or 7.62Tokarev. Yea, a five shot, 1.5 inch barreled DAO - it would be (in theory) slimmer than the .38 snubbies, and maybe easier to carry IWB, but still pack a nice punch.
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100 years ago, there were a dozen companies making pistol in that size frame. (5 shot 32, short cylinder)

Heck, i would settle for NAA making a slightly larger 'Earl' in 5 shot 32acp, or 6 shot 22 mag.
 
1) this:
HoosierQ said:
I would like to see just about any and all types of rifles come with rear apeture sites, more or less GI style. Like the Mini-14 and the Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle. I mean just about every decent rifles should come with a factor GI sight option. That's what I would like to see.
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2) a bolt action .308 that folds in half like the Kel Tec sub2000 or breaks down and stores in the stock like the ar7
 
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Glock 36 in 10mm
PMR-30 in 7.62x25 tokarev, with a XD grip safety
The Updated and Legal LeMat
 
"a centerfire repeating rifle firing a substantial cartridge that comes from the factory in a take-down configuration."

Browning makes an '81 BLR in take-down configuration, nicely made rifles in a bunch of serious chamberings, if lever actions (mag fed bolt with a lever) are included in your interests. Not dirt cheap (~$800), but not all that pricey, 'obscure' being relative.

"falling block exposed hammer single shot .22LR or WMR rifle that's sized to be used by an adult"

Eabco still makes the 97D, I guess, in most any caliber, centerfire or rimfire... but not much feedback on 'em outside their own website promotion, and way too pricey for me to consider anyway.
Just not enough shooters charmed by falling block rifles, to get the high volume gun makers serious about a reasonably priced rifle (surely cannot be pricier to manufacture than your typical lever action or bolt rifle)

Hurts my feelings a little bit that Browning would not followup on the 4 figure $$$$ Low-Wall commemorative stuff with a shooter-class Low Wall, but I understand why they don't. Always hoped Marlin or Savage might get serious someday about turning out a adult size 'Favorite/Crackshot' with better fit, finish and half decent trigger, but they won't.
 
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A 9mmX45 factory loaded round for the AR
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^What he said in post 24

Scaled bolt actions in pistol cartridges to use as intermediate rilfes between 22lr and large case capacity centerfire rifle rounds, something like a really short action Mauser type in 38 special or any of the WCF rounds of the early years.
 
I'm adding another one to my previous list.

Either the Winchester Model 12 Duck Gun (3" chamber) back in production, or a modernized 12ga 3" chamber shotgun that can takedown the way the Model 12 does.
 
"Scaled bolt actions in pistol cartridges to use as intermediate rifles between 22lr and large case capacity centerfire rifle rounds"

Ruger now has a 77/357 out, a fairly recent addition, I think
black syn stock, rotary mag, bolt action carbine
interesting, I think.. might be the next best thing to the pumper I would really like to see
would go nicely with my 357 lever actions

PS
“Bullet velocities of .357 Magnum ammunition increase significantly when fired out of the 77/357′s 18 1/2″ cold hammer-forged barrel. In testing, Hornady® 140 grain FTX® loads were clocked at over 1820 feet per second."
not too shabby for a revolver cartridge, and these days you can even do pointy bullet 357s
 
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A traditionally stocked hunting rifle with all the features of modern fighting carbines.

Think mk17 SCAR in a garand stock.

18" .338 federal barrel for wild boars and bears. 24".243 winchester barrel for varmint.
 
A hi point priced and sized 9mm carbine with a folding stock and 30 round mag that can be disassembled with out a hammer & punch.
 
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