What’s your one “unicorn” gun you know you’ll never have?

Assuming ammo to feed them is included:

M134 Minigun
An actual select-fire modern M4 (without having to be in the military)
Solothurn S-18/1000
Full-auto AR10 or FAL
HK MP5-SD
M2 Browning Heavy Machine Gun
General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger (with attached A10 Warthog! :D )

I'd put a Barrett semiauto 50bmg on this list, but I wouldn't quite call it a unicorn as I do intend to get one "eventually."
 
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I've seen several folks here say the S&W mod 52 was a unicorn to them . Several years ago I purchase on and posted picture of it on another forum that I helped to start. One of the members was an 80 + year old man that expresses interest in buying it. Turns out that he was dying and wanted on before he left this world. He only had less than a year to live. Well his wife contacted me and wanted to buy it for him
.So how could I not give a dying man his last wish. I sold her the gun to give to her husband for his birthday.for althea price I paid $500. I even gave him 5 boxes of Federal 148 grain match wad cutter ammo free...He sent me a pm thanking me for letting him have it.The man passed away around 6 months later . And before I could contact the wife to buy it back she moved away to live with kids. Have never seen another one that I could afford. But making a dying man's wish come true was worth the sacrifice.
 
S&W model 547 9mm revolver
S&W model 520 357 mag
M249 SAW also and a minigun
 
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HMP said:
I dont know, brother. I think it's all about upbringing and I wasnt brought up to piss money away on expensive things with little use. And, no matter how neat it might SEEM, a briefcase to only hold a MP5 has little use to me and 99.999999999999999999% of humans on Earth in the last 40 years.
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It has absolutely 000.00% use to or for me But I Love folks buying what they want.

Remember, Don't Hate The Player.........
 
Have gun-will travel said:
The man passed away around 6 months later . And before I could contact the wife to buy it back she moved away to live with kids.
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I always have these conversations going In. We make that stipulation on special guns that we sell here for Special Prices for Special People.......time come to sell...I get first refusal at the original price.
 
18DAI said:
S&W PC 845. Years ago I came close to getting one - in trade for a G21 - but the guy left the shop before I could get there.

Now they are just too high priced. I would have liked to try one though. Regards 18DAI
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That would have been the trade of the century (a G21 for an 845)!

S&W PC 845s are great pistols (one of the best shooting pistols to come out of the Performance Center back in the day).
 
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Smith & Wesson 520 made for the NYSP. Bought one new off of Shotgun News in the early 1980's and sold it to a young man starting rookie school. Should have sold him my Model 19 instead.
 
I wanted the "Swedish Garand" for a long time and eventually saw a great example of one at a gun show in Raleigh about a dozen years ago for $900. I chickened out and walked away, regretting it for years, but not so much now that my eyes (and shoulder) are not what they used to be.
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I have been fortunate (and lucky) enough to have found many of my former “grail” guns. Back when I was accumulating S&W 3rd Gen 10mm’s I ended up with 4 1046’s (151 made). When the prices went up, I sold out. As I’ve gotten older, I much prefer working guns over collectors pieces. There are 2 guns, not particularly rare, that I have never owned but would love too. Those would be a shooter grade S&W 27 (-2 or older) with a 5” bbl and a S&W Model of 1926 44 special. If these were to fall in my lap they would be keepers....
 
Gyrojet.

Had a chance to buy one 25 years ago when I first got to Houston. There were two on the 'used' rack. Thought about it for a minute. Try finding one now...
 
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