You just won 350 million dollars after taxes!!!

[Stevie-Ray]

I wouldn't buy a gun co. I'd buy enough land to have my own 1000 yd range. Then I'd buy more guns, concentrating on the long range weapons. Maybe put in a IHMSA silhouette range; always wanted one of those. Course I'd hafta find an XP-100 in .308 to go along with it, and a Dan Wesson revolver in .357 Maximum. Heck with the company. Guns and fun, that's the ticket.

 

[Erik]

I wouldn't speculate in the firearms market.

Though, for argument's sake, and assuming the funds were sufficient, if I did I would attempt to buy out control of Kimber.

I'd whittle the 1911 options down a bit while continuing to push the market forward, and continue their inroads into the longarm markets.

 

[George Hill]

No one mentioned buying Glock and have them make the fabled Glock Carbine.

 

[jsalcedo]

I would make a true pro second amendment action/drama with top box office stars. (even if they are anti..hahah) It would also include technical supervision from all the top firearms schools. Directed by John Milius

It would be 50% documentary 50%entertainment. 100% factual.

Maybe shorts of actual self defense stories threaded together into a common plot.

The rest of the money would go to advertising and private distribution.

 

[erikm]

Hmm ... $350M ... I could retire on that

I would probably not buy a gunmaker. While an interesting idea it's probably more trouble than it's worth.

Seriously, first thing, I'd clear any and all debts.
Then I'd move, first within the Netherlands but in the end probably to north america. The climate over there seems better these days, in more ways than one. Where in north america to move to would be the subject of a lengthy investigation. Hell, maybe I'd end up being a modern road nomad, river rat or sea gypsy. Maybe even all three.

I'd probably sink quite a bit of the cash into some fairly speculative high-tech ventures. Hybrid ground vehicle propulsion and cheap commercial access to space come to mind. Gun rights would get some seed money for either a made-for-tv movie or an interesting ad campaign. Other issues organisations (tax reform, for example) would also get donations. The rest I'd invest conservatively. I've got to have an income after all, and 1% of $100M is still a considerable amount, even after the Infernal Robbers' Society comes calling.

Cheers,
ErikM

 

[Combat-wombat]

SIG. I'd have them make semi-auto SG-550 series rifles in the US. Not that it would do any good to me in the PRK, but hey, hopefully I'll move.

 

[Kharn]

I'd buy Glock. Then I would have them get into the $5000+ OU shotgun game, with lots of gold engraving and no tennifer except on the firing pins, and the safari rifle scene with true Mauser recievers in respectable, shoulder-kicking magnum calibers (the guys from Accurate Reloading, of .577 Tyranosaur video fame, would be my load and cartridge developers).

Then we'd look into expanding to the revolver market.

Kharn

 

[ElToro]

"Hmm ... $350 Million isn't a lot of money ... what gun companies could be had for that little?"

i think S&W was sold for like 29 mil ? i read an article in 88 or 89 where Bill Ruger made an offer to buy S&W and was turned down for 150 Mil.

Otherwise i'd buy an island or most of Montana.. one or the other

 

[Jack19]

I'd wait until after the AWB expires in '04 and then make high quality aftermarket hi-cap mags, for all the popular models.

I don't think that, if it does expire, weapons manufacturers will be able to keep up with demand for quite a while. Who here will be caught without 50 hi-caps in the closet for every semi-auto weapon you own after 9/04?

Not me!!

 

[BowStreetRunner]

If i had to buy a gun company i would buy Smith and Wesson I think
i would publicly rescind their pact with Satan, i mean Clinton's White House, then start a lot of massive public relations work to convince joe and jane gunowner that s&w supported their right to bear arms
i would continue to develop high quality revolvers, and scrap the sigma line and come up with something totally new in the line of polymer pistols
i would make sure QC was great so as to take advantage of the Walther products that S&W makes
i would slim down the line of S&W double action autos....that number system is just too darn confusing.....!!!
AND i would aggreasively seek police contracts but only with places that support the rights of their citizens to bear arms
BSR

 

[Keeper]

Heck with buying one I would start my own.

 

[boogalou]

I'd buy the rights to Star and Astra, merge the two names and start making some of their nice modern handgun designs. Maybe make a run once in awhile of the Star model B & S series., or the Astra 300.

Then I'd try to put Llama out of business and/or buy them and use better QC/QA on their handgun line.

 

[seeker_two]

I'd buy Hastert & Frist...

 

[Futo Inu]

That's easy

Ruger, and then spend hundreds of thousands of company money to make sure the homeland defense rifle ban sunsets, which Ruger was responsible for passing originally, to right the wrong, and make sure gun owners learned this fact. Then, all the money given to NRA to buy their silence in Ruger's past oppression of gun owners, would instead be given to GOA to stop anti-gun legislation. Then, get on with making more guns.