If you went through the Time Tunnel and found yourself having to fight in WWII which weapon would you prefer? 
     The M1 Garand gets my honorable mention.  It was a semi auto rifle when a lot of the world was still using bolt actions.  It was a heavy, rugged, dependable war rifle with excellent accuracy to 500 yards and it used a respectable sized round, the .30-06, so it had good hitting power.  I would feel confident going into battle with one even today. 
    But my choice would be the BAR, or Browning Automatic Rifle. It was also a dependable, rugged rifle.  It also fired the .30-06 or 7.62 round.  It was accurate out to 1500 yards with a maximum range of 5000 yards, had a twenty round clip, and could fire up to 650 rounds per minute.  It put a lot of firepower in the hands of an individual soldier.  As I've mentioned before, I was my company's M-60 gunner in the 101st Airborne.  Though I've never fired a BAR it seems similar to the M-60 which weighed the same at 24 lbs and also fired the 7.62 round at 650 rounds per minute.  I think it would feel very normal to me. 
    What's your choice?

There was a German rifle that shot round corners, had a sideways periscope, so you could see what you were shooting.
https://youtu.be/HSsFiS2Voxg
It was a conversion kit so the rifle could also be used in a more conventional straight barrelled manner.

As a slinger my natural instincts are for ambush tactics, shooting round corners, just appeals to my sense of dirty fighting (no such thing, just winning or losing).
Playing fair in war is for dead people


That and the Mauser with the holster that transformed into a shoulder stock would do me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_C96?wprov=sfla1
Large magazine, high velocity round and long barrel meant that with the holster used as a stock, you basically had an ultra portable semi auto carbine.
The luger is the weapon that made it into films, but the Mauser was the superior weapon.

Though to be fair a sling and some American grenades would be my weapons of choice for most engagements.

I believe the Americans made grenades that mimicked baseball's in size and weight, for easy throwing.
Could be wrong. It's what they yanks always had in comics when I was growing up.
Hmm, that could have been poetic licence as I can't find any actual device.

In whice case I'll have some German stick grenades and one if Davids cestro slings.
Should get some serious distance with that setup.

Also the Mauser was  in a comic series when I was a kid.
Victor comic I believe.

We was not woke back then
Plus the war had only been over 30 years or so, and as a nation, we were still doing a metaphorical victory lap.

Does this count? 

Quote:

   As an MP I carried the Colt 45 M1911. IMO it's still the best pistol ever made.  Smooth, dependable, good feel, and excellent stopping power.

JudoP wrote on Oct 15^th, 2021 at 1:26pm:

Great choice! Is that a MkIX? Even better.

AncientCraftwork wrote on Oct 16^th, 2021 at 5:24am:


    That's not the worst choice you could have made.  I've mentioned this before; in the army we actually had a class that taught how to use the E Tool as a weapon of last resort.  You can stab, slice, bash, slash, or throw it like an ax.  It's a very useful item.

My second choice wuld be whatever the german research scientists made that was just too awful for even them to deploy.

Or possibly: