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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:08:00 AM EDT
I was thinking about some of the coolest guns I've seen in my life, and thought I would share what I think is the coolest, because many people will never get to see it in person:
I took a tour of the KGB's (closed to the public) museum last year and was permitted to be within 1 foot of Francis Gary Powers' suppressed Hi-Standard pistol. I wanted so badly to take a picture of it, but they wouldn't let me  .Anyway, that was what I think is the neatest gun I've seen because of its historical significance. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:17:45 AM EDT
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AR15 or the Barret .50....
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:19:53 AM EDT
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A DEAGLE wit da beams YO!
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:20:04 AM EDT
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The AUG A2 in my safe.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:20:15 AM EDT
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Seen?
The one mounted on an M1. Tastes like 120mmmmmmmmmmmmmilimeter. Shot? the 25mm Bushy on Alpha Red-4 (M3 CFV) Oh, you meant small arms? The AR-15, of course 
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:20:59 AM EDT
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A Transferable HK 51 or a dealer sample MP5K!
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:26:40 AM EDT
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I honestly believe the "coolest" weapon I've ever encountered is the Mk19.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:28:46 AM EDT
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It's gotta be one of these two:
The Atomic Cannon  Or, Anzio Annie 
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:33:10 AM EDT
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GE minigun at Bulletfest a couple years ago. That was like...magic.
Then someone brought an MG-42 to one of our little SW Ohio shoots at Millers. A very intimidating rate of fire--pretty amazing, actually. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:41:47 AM EDT
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Let's see....Grandad's Colt Peacemaker (carried by his grandfather when AZ was a territory) is pretty cool--lotta history there... Barret M82 (shoots like a wet dream) is nice as well. MP5K PDW is my favorite to play with, but the G18 is a close second...The suppressed .50 is a head turner as well..A suppressed M1 SOCOM is a hoot, and same goes for a SBR'd 16 with a can...
20mm Lahti is pretty neat and it makes the Barret sound like a popgun. The 90mm anti-tank gun is a whole different world of loud, and the M134s sound like something ripping a hole in the world. The hand cranked Hotchkiss cannon is neat (37mm gatling gun) and sooooo pretty--shiny polished brass and octagonal barrels...The 37mm bofors are pretty freakin sweet as well. But one of the coolest ones I've gotten to play with recently is the much vaunted "Gun From Heat", the FNC.... GT Yes, I am a lucky bastard! 
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:48:06 AM EDT
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Last week I finally got to look at a friends private collection and got to fondle:
FG42 1st and 2nd model Swiss FG42 copy STG 45, the only one I've ever seen in person Villar Perosa 4 Colt potato diggers a bunch of other stuff that I knew nothing about, such as brass Maxims and Japanese copies of Vickers |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:49:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:52:15 AM EDT
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The first time I ever saw an SP1 in a gunstore, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. At $200, it was out of reach for me at the time. That being old hat now, the coolest thing I ever saw was a Gyrojet presentation model in its own wooden case.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:52:17 AM EDT
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A BIG +1 While I didn't see the guns themselves, watching an AC-130 Spectre in action rates as one of the coolest things I've ever seen. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:57:43 AM EDT
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I get to see AC-130s everyday. I guess they're cool, but you're kinda numb when you work on them everyday. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:58:23 AM EDT
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GE Mini-gun at the Camden, TN shoot. LB |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:59:38 AM EDT
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One of the Thompsons used at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Maybe not the "coolest," but one of the most historically important guns I have ever seen.
Unless it was Booth's derringer. For a history head like me, cool = historically important. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:59:42 AM EDT
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Albert Speer's PPK and Richard Bong's 1911A1 at the US Airforce museum.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 4:08:10 AM EDT
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Saw this at the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, KY last year - it's a .45 Colt.
 Lots & lots of cool armor there, too, including a King Tiger tank. ETA: did ya'all know Patton was an Olympian in the early 1900's? He competed in the Pentathalon - swimming, fencing, riding, running, and shooting, and finished fifth overall. It's thought that he may have been inadvertantly cheated on his pistol scores. He was such a good shot that some rounds went through the same hole, but the judges called them misses, which cost him valuable points. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 4:09:38 AM EDT
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mk 19 automatic grenade launcher
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Posted: 2/28/2006 4:13:43 AM EDT
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Sounds odd, but when I was a little kid the gun that struck me was a punt gun with original boat in a museum. I would still love to own one (w/ original boat). That is what made up my mind that I wanted to learn about guns. I had seen plenty before and my father had around 40 at the time, but that one really got me interested for some reason. I think I was 5.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 4:24:57 AM EDT
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Here's a pic of the coolest gun I've fired.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 4:30:02 AM EDT
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I'm surprised nobody listed it yet.....
WESTINGHOUSE MODEL M25 PHASED PLASMA RIFLE (40w range)  Seriously, the coolest gun I've ever seen would have to be the collection of guns in the Governors mansion at Williamsburg. Just too cool to believe - hundreds of rifles, pistols, and swords. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 4:31:46 AM EDT
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Minigun mounted on APC, privately owned.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 4:59:50 AM EDT
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a .475 Wildey and a M82A1 from the Norwiegan .mil
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:01:07 AM EDT
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H&K SMG II, fondled it at Fort Campbell during the Week of the Eagles in 1988. Thought it was hella-cool then and now.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:05:34 AM EDT
[#26]
HK 417 at the AUSA show.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:08:58 AM EDT
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I put a couple of mags through a P90 and the semiauto Barrett .50.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:13:18 AM EDT
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I filmed this two day ago:
Go here: home.earthlink.net/~q3131/data/ Right click and save as: PICT0036.MOV Quicktime required. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:43:53 AM EDT
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The class III full size Uzi I got to shoot when I was 9.
 The only other gun I had ever shot at the time was a single shot .22... it was days before the smile came off my face!
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:46:09 AM EDT
[#30]
 got to play with one when I was a kid. was and still is my favorite. if it shoots anything like a normal 92fs then I wont have a problem with it even on full auto/burst fire. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:51:24 AM EDT
[#31]
Seen one of these in action at a closed show at a army base a few years ago. Probably the collest thing I have seen.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 5:52:30 AM EDT
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I thought this was a thread about guns...... funny
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Posted: 2/28/2006 7:09:51 AM EDT
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105mm.
also mounted on the AC130 for aerial fun |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 7:16:08 AM EDT
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HK21E & 18" Barrett M82A1....
Both are pretty incredible. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 7:20:14 AM EDT
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M-249 SAW that the asshole dealer wouldn't let me touch because I don't have a badge.
I don't need no stinkin' badge! 
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Posted: 2/28/2006 7:20:51 AM EDT
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This little sucker:
 
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Posted: 2/28/2006 7:38:51 AM EDT
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Richard Bongs 1911
M-16 used in the movie Heat My dads Colt Comando |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 10:09:34 AM EDT
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-Patton’s SAA at the museum as mention earlier
-Ugo Beretta presentation M92 s/n1 in the M9 assembly room at Beretta Armi in Gardone -Colt IMP (one of 4 prototypes) at the Air Armament Museum (Eglin AFB) -Marlin lever gun (.32-20 I think) papered to Doc Holiday. I got to hold that one. -Unmolested GUU-5 (thanks Steve) -2 sequentially s/n Colt 1903 pocket hammerless NIB lettered to the OSS -Webley silent pistol (at a gun show in Stuttgart) -NIB Liberator pistol at the same show I also worked on a well worn High Power a few years ago that needed tuned up a bit. When the gentleman came to pick it up I asked why he was so seemingly attached to it and he said it was issued to him in 1961-2 when he went to V.N. with the CIA and he’s seldom been without it since. I thought it sounded like BS initially until his CIA story was confirmed by a retired bird who’s known the guy for 20+ years. I’d love to hear some of those stories. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 10:19:01 AM EDT
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I've seen quite a few guns "in the flesh (steel?)", but I must say the one that stands out as being the most emotionally moving is seeing the little black powder muzzle loader "pistol" that killed Lincoln (on display in the museum underneath Ford's Theater).
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Posted: 2/28/2006 10:20:25 AM EDT
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HK MG43 at Shot Show.
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Posted: 2/28/2006 10:22:30 AM EDT
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All original MP44 bringback that "doesn't exist"
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Posted: 2/28/2006 10:24:34 AM EDT
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+1 on that Derringer. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:17:48 PM EDT
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I wasn't sure if it was technically considered a Derringer or not, thank you for clarifying. It is a very unique feeling, staring down the muzzle of the barrel that was used to kill one of this nation's most famous presidents. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:21:53 PM EDT
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An H&K USP 9mm.
Why? Because it was the first gun I ever bought. Rifle: FAL Its the right arm of the free world for pete's sake! |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:25:59 PM EDT
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Numerous WW2 weapons, and the coolest gun ive gotten a chance to shoot was a SW 500
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:29:58 PM EDT
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At the Springfield Armory in Springfield Massachusetts;
M-1 Garand, serial number 1. Also on that the second coolest trip coolest gun. There were som Civil War reenactors camped on the south lawn and they had a six-pounder. They fired a blank round (one pound of black powder) as a demonstration. Ooooo, i want one! |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:32:54 PM EDT
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One that I humped - M67 90mm recoiless rifle
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:37:52 PM EDT
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The Secret Nuclear Weapons Museum at Kirtland AFB/Sandia, not to be confused with the "Public" museum. I think I had wood seeing all the internals to so many examples of "Instant Sunshine".
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:38:39 PM EDT
[#49]
I have always liked the recoiless rifles. However for me it would be the quad .50. |
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Posted: 2/28/2006 3:43:51 PM EDT
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Springfield musket from the civil war sitting in my gun safe, or my SA CMP M1 Garand made in september 1942,
two wonderful peices of history, and two guns ill never sell |
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