Tommy Photos

[Bawanna]

The real ones have 10" barrels. The new ones have to have legal 16" barrels.
Many get the stamp and get approval for a Short Barrel Rifle and then put on a 10" barrel. I would love to do that.

It's 200 bucks, a mountain of paperwork and grovelling and then the cost of a barrel and installation.

I don't know where your 30cal is coming from though, never heard of a 30?

Had to be a 45. Less it was a M1 Carbine which is a totally different animal. Just the opposite. I have an original one of those and it's light and nimble.

[RevRay]

It was 40+ years ago ... so I could be wrong. I may have been an Army CPT, but I was no gun expert. I'm pretty sure I was told it was a Thompson ... it had the round magazine and looked a lot like yours except for being shorter.

[Bawanna]

If it had the drum it was definitely 45. I didn't know the military ever used the drums, thought they were all stick mags but you mentioned ceremonial so maybe it was for that.

Again I'd love to have the 10" barrel, that's they way they were meant to be. A hack saw and 10 minutes and I could have it but with the drones and spies and leaks and tattle tale neighbors I better hold for legal.

[RevRay]

It wasn't Army issue ... it was simply an off-the-books weapon that the CO got to call his own. It was probably something that had been gotten off some VC once upon a time. I may have been told the story back then, but I've forgotten it by now. It's probably true that most if us have forgotten more than we remember ... which may be just as well.

[muggsy]

I still remember everything, RevRay, but I seem to run into a lot of new stuff that I used to know.

[Ghostsoldier]

Beautiful weapons, B....but, you've just GOT to do the SBR conversion, though!
Rob

[Embalmer]

mmm tommyporn... Love that display case.


btw want to talk heavy? tommy is a lightweight compared to my...

[DeaconKC]

Mine's a 16" too:

Colonel what did you do with the vertical grip? And can I talk you out of it?

[Bawanna]

PM sent.

[Dirty Dave]

Beautiful display! While waiting for my friend "Tommy" to be released from Kahr General Hospital, I have been watching lots of movies. I bought a 11 1/2 hour 2 dvd set called "Victory at Sea". All WWII stuff with lots of land action also. Imagine my surprise....I'm seeing a British soldier (I assume British because of his helmet) in a landing craft getting ready to hit the beach (believe it was D-Day). You probably guessed it...he's cradling a Thompson. GET THIS! Thompson had finned barrel, Cutts comp and vertical foregrip with stick mag. NOT what I expected to see for military issue. Wanted to share that. Any thoughts? Anybody?