Guy48065
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Best use of a Tommy gun in film (I have never counted the rounds in that magazine):
"The old man's still an artist with a Thompson."
Best use of a Tommy gun in film (I have never counted the rounds in that magazine):
Well, that's a Coen Brothers film, they turn out excellent movies.Best use of a Tommy gun in film
Many of the "Motor Bandits" who sprang up after the Bank Collapse in 1930 typically raided NG Armories (often with "inside" help). Prohibition involved moving bulky supplies of booze around, so tossing a few shooters in was no real bother.It is my understanding the majority of the firearms used by the bad guys then were legal purchases. After '34
A story from Combat! was that Rick Jason (Lt. Saunders) was tole to pick a prop weapon. He hefted the rubber duck tommy gun and picked a Carbine instead. And gave Vic Morrow grief about toting a boat anchor around.
The "L" drum holds 50 rounds and the "C" drum holds 100 rounds (duh!). .45 ACP of course. The original drums are fairly reliable, if properly greased. Repro drums vary, but the Taiwanese "Crosby" drums are pretty good.
Yes, Kahr makes a semi but I wouldn't recommend it. For one thing, it needs a shorter barrel to look right but that needs a Form 1 and a $200 "making" tax to turn it into an SBR. And the gun is too heavy for a semiautomatic.
A collector would be better off building a "dummy" gun using a Richardson (or Philly Ord) receiver and a Russian re-import parts kit. This project would set you back about $4,000 but that's still a lot cheaper than an original WW2 M1928A1 full automatic, that would run at least $25,000.
Don't like the 16" barrel, both the 1927A1 Deluxe pistol and M1 SBR have 10.5" barrels.
One of my Dillinger books claimed a .30 caliber variant was popular with the gangsters of that era; however Wiki doesn't support that contention.
There are several modern versions that don't get shot much around here anymore, I'll leave it to the offspring to decide their disposition.
As shown here we shot a version every summer as kids when the carnival would come around.
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For watching a Thompson at work, Combat was good.....but the Untouchables was better. Nearly every week Bruce Gordon (Frank Nitty) or Robert Stack (Eliot Ness) had an episode with choppers in action.
Those Finns made some tough, resourceful and effective soldiers! The Suomi K/31 was one good sub gun... I’ll say it was better than the Thompson M1 and it’s offspring.I gave up on getting a Thompson.
Just too much money involved.
I settled for a semi-auto Suomi, instead, with a drum and three stick magazines.
NFA was about an attempt to ban all handguns, it was gussied up with "anti gangster" stuff as a way to get it through Congress.
The Thompson was briefly chambered in a caliber called .45 Thompson, which was basically a lengthened .45 ACP round. There were plans in WW2 to make a version in .30 carbine. I can't remember if any were actually made or not, but it didn't come to anything because the M3 Greasegun was designed to supplant the Tommygun, though it never quite did, and the select fire M2 Carbine came about, which eliminated the necessity of a .30 Carbine Thompson.
I don't believe any Thompsons were made in a .30 caliber. It was designed during WW1 and John Tafaglio Thompson started out with a .30-'06 designed but when the delayed blowback Blish operated version couldn't be made to work, it was decided to go to a pistol round and the "submachine gun" came into existance.
Nothing beats a good 1927 for home defense. AFAIK it has the original foregrip.
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Those darn refrigerators you just can't trust themYears ago I got to shoot an M1A1 at a friends farm. We were shooting at old kitchen appliances. One of the refrigerators suddenly charged......and the Thompson quickly demonstrated its stopping power!!!
My favorite subgun of all time!!!
Jennifer ConnellyI love that movie I had a huge crush on the woman in that film and now I can't even remember the actresses name!