Eat Your Heart Out
This should make all of you just a little bit happy. I know you want one for Christmas, but you might not be quite old enough for it, so – well, you can at least look at it.
Okay, yeah, I sort of know that isn’t the gun in the video, but it’s a gun, isn’t it?
The history of the 1921 Thompson submachine gun, from The Chicago Typewriter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1uUfMCQ0Y
Category: Guns, Historical
Covet, Covet, Covet! And, yes, as a matter of fact I DO want one…of each…for Christmas. The Bi-Pod Model pictured above…AND…the one depicted in the video.
And don’t worry about the bait and switch pics…we think that both models are as lovely as the day is long. Kinda like showing a picture of Elizabeth Hurley in the headline and the linky opens to a picture of Elizabeth Taylor, or Elizabeth Montgomery…or a young Queen Elizabeth,…or Elizabeth Gillies…or Elizabeth Olsen…well you get the “picture”!
Tanks Matey!
Just had to throw this one in the mix.
https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE
Gotta love a guy that just upends the table.
To really appreciate it turn on the close captioning
Today I learned what a Blishlock is.
When I started working for US Trucking on 66 Murray Street which was in the process of merging with Brink’s back in 1970, there were picture’s of US Trucking Armoured truck guys holding Thompson subs. At the time they wore Sam Brown belts and leather puttees with the trousers ballooned out above the puttees and crushed NYCPD type Motorcycle hats. They all looked like WW1 vets. Before I started there, A number of Thompsons were found during renovation of the small range located under the truck ramp and were given to ATF over on 90 Church Street in Manhatten. We used the M-1AI’s, BAR’s, Garands, M-1 Carbines, 1911’s, Browning 30’s and 50’s on the USS Okinawa, and of course the 3″ 50’s in the gun tubs. Standing the starboard Lifeboat watch underway was something else when they were firing the 3″50’s on the flight deck just forward of the island structure which was also on the starboard side had particles blowing past us and I once got some of that in my eyes which washed out with a little water.
Can buy semi-auto repros of both 1921 and 1928 Thompsons today for relatively reasonable prices, less than $2k each. They look and feel very much like the originals.