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Posted: 4/23/2017 12:15:39 PM EDT

Between ages 12-17 I really wanted a Mini-14 and PC-9

in 2014 at 29yrs old I finally bought both. Within two years I sold the PC-9 due to its terrible trigger pull and the fact that spare parts are now non-existent

the Mini I'm honestly pretty happy with. I knew going into it what it could do and what it couldn't.

Every time I shoot the Mini it takes me back to being a 14yr old kid who really wanted one. Even though the first time I actually got to shoot a Mini I was about 27

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:33:35 PM EDT

[#1]

I wanted a 7mm mag for Years untill I fired one, once.

Fuck that.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:38:00 PM EDT

[#2]

Street sweeper

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:39:27 PM EDT

[#3]

Gold tiger stripe Desert Eagle. Still want one

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:39:40 PM EDT

[#4]

AK47

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:40:14 PM EDT

[#5]

Spas 12

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:40:42 PM EDT

[#6]

Well I wasn't a teenager yet, but I wanted a tec-9 when I was 10-11 after I saw Big Trouble in Little China.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:41:38 PM EDT

[#7]

Back in the early 80's I wanted a stainless Mini-14 sooooo bad for popping coyotes.

Ended up with an H&R .22 hornet single shot with a pitted barrel.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:41:40 PM EDT

[#8]

Watched Rambo and wanted "the gun that could shoot through the roof!"

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:42:47 PM EDT

[#9]

All of em.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:44:58 PM EDT

[#10]

FN PS90. Pretty neat gun, but also a niche product that I sorta wish I had spent the money on a AR instead. It's too expensive for what it is IMO.

Now, if I could convince myself to get a couple tax stamps for it it might be a different story

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:47:02 PM EDT

[#11]

Everything under $100.00 from dads Shotgun News.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:47:35 PM EDT

[#12]

Mini 14, FS2000, SPAS-12,

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:47:49 PM EDT

[#13]

Beretta 92 from Lethal Weapon when I was 9 or 10. Shot one when I was 17 or so and decided I didn't want one anymore.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:47:58 PM EDT

[#14]

Pistol grip shotguns.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:49:10 PM EDT

[#15]

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Yep

Chicago Typewriter

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:49:26 PM EDT

[#16]

Attached File

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:49:31 PM EDT

[#17]

Uzi

Tommy Gun

Desert Eagle

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:50:00 PM EDT

[#18]

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Well I wasn't a teenager yet, but I wanted a tec-9 when I was 10-11 after I saw Big Trouble in Little China.

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Tec-9. It's big, it's dumb, it's shitty.

Still want it.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:51:00 PM EDT

[#19]

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Fail.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:52:43 PM EDT

[#20]

Only gun I can ever remember really wanting as a teen(other than a nice shotgun) was an AR15, but I don't consider those impractical or dumb. I've bought plenty of dumb guns over the years but most(more likely all

) were impulse buys.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:54:17 PM EDT

[#21]

USAS-12, Steyr TMP, Uzi (especially with the fixed stock), American-180.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:55:28 PM EDT

[#22]

30 carbine enforcer pistol

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:55:58 PM EDT

[#23]

Let me pull out my handy dandy wish list of guns.

Desert eagle
37 mm
gyrojet
S&W 500 magnum with a long barrel

All of the other ones aren't dumb or impractical (some are slightly practical, some are slightly not dumb)

I still want them all

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:56:33 PM EDT

[#24]

I really wanted an Uzi for the longest time. A few times I almost bought a semi auto one. They are cool but it doesn't get much more impractical than a massive, heavy, awkward, $800 semi auto 9mm. If it's full auto that's another story but those are out of my price range.

And a desert eagle. If they were a little more reliable I would own one.

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:58:21 PM EDT

[#25]

Desert Eagle and a SPAS 12

Posted: 4/23/2017 12:59:53 PM EDT

[#26]

TEC-9 yo.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:00:12 PM EDT

[#27]

It was after I was a teenager, but for a while I really wanted one of those gigantic, stupid and expensive H&K Mark 23s

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:00:41 PM EDT

[#28]

The only dumb gun I ever wanted was a Desert Eagle, I don't want one anymore.

My favorite gun as a kid was the retro AR15/M16 and the like. I grew up watching movies like Platoon and Hamburger Hill, honestly that probably explains a lot.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:02:32 PM EDT

[#29]

Mini-30 and a desert eagle

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:06:40 PM EDT

[#30]

Arisaka. They were $25 in the shotgun news.
Later, HK 91 and Fal.
What were my primary guns at that time, 10/22, mossy 500 and any deer rifle I could borrow.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:08:20 PM EDT

[#31]

Tec-9, finally got one in trade, took it out and found out what a piece of shit that one was.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:11:12 PM EDT

[#32]

Twelve-gauge autoloader.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:11:41 PM EDT

[#33]

American 180, bought one when I was 23 for 2100 with stamp. Sold it last year for 17k ;)

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:11:53 PM EDT

[#34]

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This...got it, shot it, it sucked, sold it

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:12:05 PM EDT

[#35]

Raven .25 in chrome!

Would fire one mag great and then be a jam o matic.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:12:12 PM EDT

[#36]

Tec-9 for sure. Ended up with a Tec-22. POS until I found the right mags and ammo combo then it ran like a raped ape.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:12:54 PM EDT

[#37]

Ruger Mini 14 Ranch rifle with wire stock. Used to drool over it in the Bass Pro catalog we used to get at the house.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:15:31 PM EDT

[#38]

That's a hard one for me.

It is between the Steyr GB and the OA-98.

I going with the OA-98.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:17:09 PM EDT

[#39]

First pistol I ever bought was a MK23.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:18:16 PM EDT

[#40]

Uzi and Jatimatic.

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Posted: 4/23/2017 1:21:25 PM EDT

[#41]

The jokers(jack Nichols) looooong barrel revolver. I wanted to be able to shoot down low flying airplanes lol

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:22:53 PM EDT

[#42]

Ruger 77 458 Winchester. I've wanted one ever since I first laid eyes on one in a small gun shop in Springerville Arizona back around 1990. I finally bought/traded for one a couple weeks ago. Not too practical, (unless they delist Grizzly bears and open season on them) but it's just sexy.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:24:35 PM EDT

[#43]

the needler from HALO

eta i still fucking want one.

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:24:38 PM EDT

[#44]

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:26:00 PM EDT

[#45]

Resident Evil Apocalyps: LJ's custom guns scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLpmd6_KDyg

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:30:06 PM EDT

[#46]

Crossfire

I have no idea why I wanted one so bad

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:30:09 PM EDT

[#47]

Sharps .54 cal

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Posted: 4/23/2017 1:42:20 PM EDT

[#48]

Semi auto .22

Posted: 4/23/2017 1:44:22 PM EDT

[#49]

I wanted to machine a 1911 in .32 ACP in shop class just because it would have been a silly thing to make for a two semester project.
However, I did get an A for my manual blueprints which I made using my dad's 1911 as a reference to re-scale everything.

Posted: 4/23/2017 2:56:10 PM EDT

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