If you could invent/design your dream gun, what would it be?

[Croat]

1. Chiappa Rino in 44 magnum.

2. Lever in 475 Linebaugh under $2,000 (not the one currently available for $5k).

 

[The Heretic]

Actually one WAS made at one time - the High Standard Sentinel.

Very trim, lightweight and well built.

Keep your eye out and you may find one - but they have seemed to found 'collector' status in the last few years and are getting hard to find.

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For quite a while, I had a HS Sentinel Mk IV with a ~3" barrel - I can't remember which was my first handgun, it or my Star PD. Probably the revolver. I had it for about 40 years.

I had a lot of problems with sticky extraction out of the box. I eventually gave it to my son-in-law. It was not a particularly lightweight revolver for what it was. I like my Ruger LCRx a lot better.

A Ruger Wrangler with the 6.5" barrel is probably closer to what I envision - if Ruger made a version that had a lightweight frame like the Wrangler, the sights of the Super Wrangler, a lightweight barrel shroud (instead of the steel barrel), a Ti or Scandium cylinder, and setup for a scope.

I.E., something like this: https://ruger.com/products/newModelSingleSixConvertible/specSheets/0662.html

But made with aluminun or scandium or titanium (or a polymer FCU & AL frame like the LCR?). Cost aside, it doesn't need to be made from SS - it doesn't need to weight 45 ounces. It could easily be a pound lighter.

 

[raftman]

I'd want something like a Serbian M63 (basically Mauser with a 17" barrel) but chambered in either 7.62x39 or 5.56 rather than the 30-06, 308, or 8mm it was actually chambered in. Would be much more affordable and less punishing to shoot. I do have a 30-06 version but think it would make way more sense in an intermediate caliber:

 

[Diamondback]

Anything that makes Gun Grabbers literally stroke-out and flatline from apoplexy en-masse just at the IDEA of it being on the same planet with them.

In all serious, a lightly refreshed version of a Thompson--the ambi-friendly receier/bolt/controls of the unbuilt or prototype-only M3, mated to the barrel, detachable stock and drum-capability of the 1921AC/1928AC models, iron sights raised enough to co-witness with a top-rail BUIS and reworked to be adjustable. Mechanically reinforced to be able to take full-power .45 Super or .460 Rowland as a "steady diet" load.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Anything that makes Gun Grabbers literally stroke-out and flatline from apoplexy en-masse just at the IDEA of it being on the same planet with them.

Drop. The. Mic.

 

[Nosferatu]

Drop. The. Mic.

Just don't Drop. The. Sig.

 

[quneur]

CVA scout in stainless with open sights and no picatinny rail and with real wood.

Spencer rifle in .357 or .44 mag.

Fantasy gun: a non-capacitance rail gun. The EM field created by a secondary source like solid state or high density plasma.

 

[FATAL125]

...hamster.

Did someone say "hamster"...

 

[FATAL125]

What butt? She looks like a frog in trousers

FATAL agrees...

 

[Omni]

What butt? She looks like a frog in trousers

 

[CountryGent]

Something mechanically and stylistically like the Webley-Fosbery, but in .44 Magnum.

 

[Diamondback]

Star Trek Phaser or Men in Black Mosquito.

You mean the Noisy Cricket... an while you're there hand me that Series 4 De-Atomizer, or those sweet BFG's from Agent K's trunk.

"You sold a reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity to an unlicensed cephalopoid? Jeebs, you piece of sh*t!"

 

[The Heretic]

What butt? She looks like a frog in trousers

This butt:

 

[Diamondback]

Just when you thought Rosie O'Donuts couldn't get any uglier...

 

[Croat]

Just when you thought Rosie O'Donuts couldn't get any uglier...

Rosie? I thought it was Lizzo.

Nah, too skinny...

 

[po18guy]

Triple barrel, like a triangle, rifle with revolving cylinders like a revolver.




Painted purple of course.

Would it shoot "Trounds"?

 

[nammac]

Would it shoot "Trounds"?

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Aren't those "triounds"? Interesting concept, interesting firearm.