95 Winchester, among others, for sale in 1940...

[airedaleman]

From "The Arms "Chest", American Rifleman June 1940

54 Winchester 270, excellent, Pacific rear,$33.00. Springfield M2 checkered stock, excellent, $46.00. 95 Winchester
30-40 Delux Mod., repaired stock, good, $15.00. 41 Bisley, excellent, $26.00 or excellent K-22. E---- B---, Kulm, N. D.

(To put the above prices in perspective, consider this. The DepressIon was still a very real thing in 1940. My dad, a self-employed master plumber, was lucky if he could get two or three days work a week, and then there were no guarantees about getting paid. He took a job, in 1940, as a pipefitter at Federal Shipyards in Kearny, NJ building destroyers for the magnificent sum of 40 cents an hour and all the asbestos he could inhale.)

[El Chivo]

the thing to do is invent the time machine, and forget about riding dinosaurs or killing Hitler as an infant.

Instead, transport ordinary coins, guns, whatever, from the past, and sell them today as antiques in mint condition.

You could also use your time machine as a Fedex delivery service - "when it absolutely, positively, has to be there yesterday".

A client would come in with a package that has to be delivered yesterday, to meet the deadline.

The recipient receives the package, opens it, and doesn't know what it's for. Then the phone rings with a rush job, and as it turns out, the package is what they need.

[Ysabel Kid]

I've often day-dreamed of this. In order to do it properly you'd need to get as much "old money" available then hop back a few decades. Exchange that money (which was all still good, as then it was "new money") for yet older currency. Hop again. A bt tedious, but when you eventually land in the mid-1800's say, what you brought with you has enormous purchasing power. Now you buy the guns, collectibles - even stock - and jump back to the present. Sell the stock, make a fortune, and repeat.

Yes, I used to have too much time on my hands...

[Thunder50]

Forget going back that far. I would send myself a note to buy an energy stock, that was selling for $0.78/ share, ten years ago. Sell almost every gun I had, then, to buy this stock. Could have sold it this summer for $63/share. Then buy whatever gun I wanted now!!! Put $10,000 into stock( only dreaming my stuff was worth that!) and sell for $800,000.00 now. After taxes, leaves me with $600,000.00. Could buy alot of stuff with that!!!

[SmokeEater2]

Yeah that is a nice daydream! To be able to travel back and buy a fresh out of the factory Colt in a store in Abilene,Tombstone or the like,or an unfired '73 Winny or Sharps (drool!)or better yet take one of your newly acquired "new,old" guns and work a trade with Mr. Earp for one of his used guns. Well, if I'm gonna' dream might as well dream big.

[Blaine]

"When you look at history, you change it. Because you looked at it" N. Cage in Next

[pharmseller]

Heck, just check out the winning lottery numbers, go back in time and purchase those numbers, pocket $250 MILLION.


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[specops]

If you buy into the parallel universe theory you wouldn't come back to the same universe you left because you would have changed who that gun or money or whatever would have gone to so you have a new set of variables with different outcomes. Not to mention the energy it would take, the entire energy budget of the whole world as we know it. Then how are you going to generate that kind of energy in the past? Better to haunt estate sales and hope to win the lottery.