If you could legally own any one non-fictional weapon, what would it be and why?

[bobmus]

The L98, probably the A1 cadet variant
http://1557-friars.sqn.ac/images/activities/l98-rifle.jpg
I've been trained to use it in cadets, though I've long since expired the time I'd have to have retaken a test to prove my competency. But yeah, this, as I can sort of operate one, know its weight and have done drill with it.

All in all, I dislike guns though.

 

[TAGM]

Honestly, I'd go with a German Ruger (one of the old ones you imagine Nazis with.) Why? Well, practicality, more then anything - very little recoil, in comparison to, say, an AK-47 or rifle, which makes it easier to use, and hey, it still uses bullets, so while people I'm shooting at are saying "Bwaaaah-ha-ha-ha-haaa he's using a really tiny gun what a ponce!" I can catch them between the eyes easier and still kill them. :3

Well, either that, or something that launches grenades/rockets/whatever. If only because you don't have to aim explosives that much. Or maybe just some pressure-sensitive mines, or pressure-sensitive dynamite. So, yes, either give me something I can aim easily, or give me something that doesn't need aiming, in essence.

 

[waj9876]

A sword with the same kind of blade as the first form of the Goddess Sword from Skyward Sword. Not fictional if it can be made.

 

[BristolBerserker]

For melee it would be a knuckle duster knife.

Non-melee i think i'd have a Baker Rifle with bayonet.

 

[Pharsalus]

MP40, the classic Cadillac of sub machine guns.