I never knew there were .38 caliber fully automatics

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I have heard of .38 super Thompsons. have no idea if this is true or not, so please correct me if I am wrong. But that would be cooler than Thompsons already are.

Hopefully some one can set me straight.
 
I believe so, as someone else said.
IIRC there were also experimental 9mm. Thompsons.
Also, a .45 Thompson caliber was developed and a Thompson was made for it. It was IIRC longer than the .45ACP and required its own magazine.
Nothing ever came of it as far as I recall.
 
Forget the caliber talk, Auburn...

HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO SURVIVE THE BRADY BUNCH CRAP WITHOUT YOUR BRAIN MELTING?

That is what I really want to know. Cause I can't spend more than a few seconds at one of those sites without my blood pressure going up and letting out some inventive cuss words that I rarely use...:cuss::cuss::cuss::fire::fire::fire::fire::cuss::cuss:
 
Um guys there is no shch thing as 38 anything as far as I know so its a mute arguement 9mm 38 super 38 special and 380 all measure .355 to .358:neener:
 
I haven't seen any schematics of it, but could one render a Mateba full-auto? That would create a .38 Special full-auto, although it would be illegal and a darn shame if someone ruined one like that :)
 
I couldn't bear to watch a Mateba being "altered" like that. Maybe if it came from the factory as an F/A, but being butchered by an owner, terrible. I've always wanted a Mateba, are they still being made? And didn't someone on this board get one at an estate sale for a price in the low hundreds?
 
That S&W model 52 is a nice piece that fires .38 special but I don't think it came in FA.

The .380 Mac came in FA. The .380 round is exactly like the .38 special except for the cartridge length, bullet size, inventor, application, the rim, the power level of the round and the price per box.

I believe the Mac-10 is one of those mystery guns that the VPC is always claiming have "accu-rate sustained fully automatic fire from the hip". Come on now you don't really believe anything they say do you? I can not weld together two facts out of their material no matter how hard I try.
 
Loudmouth Schnook: You mentioned a barrel shroud. Is that "the shoulder thing that goes up"?

Eric F It's a MOOT argument, not MUTE. Moot means "useless or without consequence". Mute means "silent". It wasn't a silent argument. It was a useless argument without consequence.
 
Actually, the firearm in question was a fully auto version of the S&W Mod. 10 revolver made during the late '60s for the Navy SEALS. It was belt fed and came standard with a silencer. It had special bullets, too, but those are still classified.

I thought -everybody- knew that. :rolleyes:
 
Eric F It's a MOOT argument, not MUTE. Moot means "useless or without consequence". Mute means "silent". It wasn't a silent argument. It was a useless argument without consequence.
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Yes I know, there was a joke in that. Mute - silent, no .380 dia bullets so no shooting so no noise- mute, get it? Probably not but it was really funny to me at the time.
 
Where did the brady bunch get their info about the types of weapons involved? Neither the news article or the video mention anything about the firearms used.
 
EricF, I've never heard of a .355 S&W or .355 special or .355 Super....and, yes, I do know what actual size the bullets are. Stupid is as Stupid does.
 
Mateba went bankrupt and I don't believe they sold the design to anyone, but I'd sure as heck like to see someone make it again. I'd pay ten hundred bucks for a Mateba.
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Me too.
 
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