Thompson 45 Sub Machine Guns Sold in Hardware Stores
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 05:20 PM
When was the last yr a person could have gone into a hardware store and bought a Thompson
i know information technology was marketed to citizens as a ranch gun (the famous bandit shooting ad.) and i know at some point it was discouraged to sell to individuals
could i have bought a Savage Thompson in 1940 if i wanted one? I
n Dec. 1941 if i lived in CA, was concerned nigh a Japanese invasion and wanted to buy a Thompson for my family....could i have got 1 in my hands? (later paying the $200 stamp)
the majority of FA (in general) seem to be ex-law or ex-military guns....with the exception of the Mac's....but seems like individuals didnt buy brand new machine guns much 1940-1970 (until Mac's came out)...and M16 conversions
Edited by huggytree, 29 August 2017 - 05:21 PM.
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 05:43 PM
Some where around 1930 the family of Thomas Fortune Ryan decided to merely sell Thompsons to law enforcement.
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Posted 29 Baronial 2017 - 05:56 PM
Mostly sold through the sole distributor Federal Laboratories, until there were some questionable deals at that place likewise....
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Posted 29 August 2017 - 06:45 PM
Huggytree,
To answer your specific question about walking into a hardware store and buying a Savage Thompson in 1940, no. All product in 1940 was directed towards military and some police sales. They weren't marketing guns to the public in 1940, and equally Jim pointed out, hadn't been since at least 1930. You certainly couldn't have procured i after the U.S. got in the state of war. All production was going to the military, there were very few constabulary sales during WWII.
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Posted xxx August 2017 - 07:31 AM
I expected a unlike thread topic
Thought it was about #167
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Posted 30 Baronial 2017 - 08:41 AM
. Yes, I thought information technology was about the "Hardware Store" gun #167. it has been a while since we
discussed this and then for newer guys the short story of the gun (and I am no expert, feel free to correct
as needed) is - back in the day a guy who endemic a hardware store - this would have been before
the 1934 human action - bought a M1921, put in storage, and never did annihilation with it, but fortunately
the gun was registered. Many years later the guy has passed away and when his family gets
around to selling off the hardware store they discover the gun equally if it was in a time capsule. This
is how I remember the story when the gun was on display at the York PA SAR Show in 2010.
The gun was said to be briefly on display before being transferred to the new possessor, likely
never to exist seen again for a very long fourth dimension.
The gun is a real beauty and appears new and unfired in every respect. Information technology a miracle it did
not get rusty over all those years.
So does Gordons annotation mean that you are now the owner?
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Posted 30 Baronial 2017 - 08:49 AM
I bought the gun from Warren back 2010. Information technology came with all the original paperwork, painting etc.
I sold all my machine guns after Sandy Claw in one case my land declared whatever magazine over ten rounds criminal.
The new possessor turned downwards Gordon'southward book as he had already ordered the latest addition
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Posted 30 August 2017 - 05:54 PM
The gun was offered for auction on the lath by bmarvin and sold as well. A real beauty! I too thought it was the topic when I saw the title.
Ron
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Posted 31 August 2017 - 07:21 AM
FWIW, in the Rimfire Productions video "The Thompson Submachine Gun" at around the i:25 mark, Thompson Model 1921, serial no. 167 makes a brief cameo appearance and receives laudatory commentary past William Douglas.
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