Comments by "" (@williestyle35) on "Shooting the Thompsons: Comparing the 1921, 21/28, and M1A1" video.

  1. You said it yourself: "..the 1921 Colt Thompson. We think differently of Colt today than the hard core precision sporting and military arms mass manufacturing company they were in the time of the first generation of Thompson guns.
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  2. whatsgoingonhere1 , the original 1921 and 1928 Thompsons were offered for sale with horizontal fore grips at the original time of sale and can take the M1A1 style grips.
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  3. Uh... Uncle Sam had many tons of .45 acp stockpiled for the three different SMGs and other handguns it issued. The M2/M3 "grease gun" was made and issued in the hundreds of thousands.
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  4. ultrablue2 ,everything you posted is correct. The Thompson SMG was heavy, complicated, and with the drum magazine wasteful and needlessly expensive. You are right that it is shameful the British Army got caught without a proper or readily available SMG when WWII began for England, but that is what happened. The British paid for that mistake in hard currency to Colt and Thompson. The Swiss and the Swedish were not in position to offer any numbers of SMG and the Thompson was not fully committed anywhere in 1940, hence it's financial success. For all of its faults the Thompson was available, and that was good enough.
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  5. Because that is what came in to the auction house to be sold.
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  6. No. It is a function of the placement of the charger and changes to the system. It would only be less bothersome, but still there.
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  7. Ian has commented on this phenomenon. A very low specific rate of fire can be more easy to control. A high high rate of fire can make it easy to put all of those bullets in one area.
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  8. The Scotts made their own firearms?
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  9. Open bolt guns are dead.
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  10. Yes
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  11. No. It's a crappy compromise to bring down manufacturing costs and ease troop use. The original 1921 Thompson is the best because it was made to a better standard and the Blish block with its original little side buffer pads actually helped, even though it doesn't do what they imagined it did.
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  12. 990 *
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  13. Edward G. Robinson * movie
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  14. Wrong Steve. It was taught to U. S. soldiers they could sling brace to control automatic weapons. There are hundreds of pictures showing it.
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  15. Good point. And we know that Gen. Thompson did use those methods.
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  16. The horizontal fore grip was and is now available for the M1921 Thompson.
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  17. That is what he said...
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  18. Lots of U. S. soldiers were trained to use the sling to control full auto weapons in that time.
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  19. Ammo and old springs. These guns had very nice looking internal parts. And rof is based on a small sample size. Because the Army only cares if it works, the designers care how it works.
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  20. The Annihilator is super super rare. The original .30 carbine Thompson did turn up and was filmed recently by Ian (:
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  21. lol. These all came from an auction house. Can always tell when people don't watch the video.
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  22. Kevin McCallister thought so..
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  23. The 1921 AC and 1928 AC refer to the Cutts Compensator , nothing more ( because you could order the guns without it ). With the exception of the ones overstamped when sold to the U. S. Navy, all early Thompsons' were commercial products available primarily to Law Enforcement and security firms ( though some were also sold to the public, just like the BAR ). See the other videos in this series.
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  24. Marines do that with nearly every slinged weapon that has muzzle climb.
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