6 Weapons That Should Be rRevived?

[james m]

I don't necessarily agree with this article but it's an interesting concept. However; I've often stated that if I had to go into a close combat situation I'd be perfectly comfortable if armed with a Thompson SMG and a Colt 45auto.
Jim



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[August]

Interesting article, thanks. Personally I think the carbine is better left alone. Fun to shoot, but not much in combat, as expressed by my late uncle, a WWII ETO combat vet.

[ValhallaMilitaria]

I don't necessarily agree with this article but it's an interesting concept. However; I've often stated that if I had to go into a close combat situation I'd be perfectly comfortable if armed with a Thompson SMG and a Colt 45auto.
Jim



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The m-1 Thompson makes a dandy semi auto carbine and the 1911 .45 is my preferred sidearm as well. I would be okay with this pairing myself.
Eric
Thompson is difficult to control? at 11 pounds? umm, no...not at all. It sorta hangs in there while you blast a magazine's worth of ammo downrange.

[james m]

Living here and especially in Arizona I have been blessed with a lot of opportunities to fire full auto weapons and the Thompson remains one of my favorites. I used to maintain a couple of these along with around 30 other full autos at my gun club. Test firing the Thompsons was a frequent requirement and I discovered you could be very accurate out to 25 yards(indoor range maximum) but using good finger control and only firing 2-3 shot bursts at a time. Keep in mind that the Thompson fires from an open bolt and this is one of the reasons it tends to "climb". Blasting thru a full magazine usually results in the gun almost pointed at the ceiling.
Be that as it may this is IMO just about the finest crafted SMG ever built and it's a shame so many have been destroyed over the years.
When I left the gun club. the 28 Thompson had over 1,000,000*** rounds thru it and although it had been thru multiple barrel changes and some internal parts replacement the receiver was still in excellent condition. A real tribute to a 90 + year old design!
Jim

***As an example: A H&K MP5 with a sheet metal tube receiver will often stress out at around 100,000 rounds and at that point you've got an expensive piece of junk.

[ValhallaMilitaria]

Jim its been a long time since I've fired a Thompson and that was a 1928 with a 50 round drum, a very heavy piece and I was 14 at the time, I just don't recall a lot of recoil with that shooting experience but perhaps I am mis remembering it.
Yes the HK Mp5's that are built from civilian semi auto pieces tend to fail, Peter Kokalis wrote about this in his collected writings from SOF that I have here. Living here in CT, full auto is hard to find to legally fire.
Thanks for responding to my post

[james m]

Jim its been a long time since I've fired a Thompson and that was a 1928 with a 50 round drum, a very heavy piece and I was 14 at the time, I just don't recall a lot of recoil with that shooting experience but perhaps I am mis remembering it.
Yes the HK Mp5's that are built from civilian semi auto pieces tend to fail, Peter Kokalis wrote about this in his collected writings from SOF that I have here. Living here in CT, full auto is hard to find to legally fire.
Thanks for responding to my post

The MP5s the club had were original full autos. There are a Cl III with an SOT so buying and owning full autos is not an issue.

Now a story to make a grown many cry:
I walked into gunsmithing one day only to be confronted by a stack of 27 gun size boxes. I opened one and pulled out an excellent condition MP5. These had been traded in by a PD and the PD was allowed $400 per gun! I took a couple of them out on the range and they functioned flawlessly. I asked the manager what they were going to do with them and he told me the owner had already sold then as parts kits for $700 each and they were to be cut up. I told the manager to at least get the owner to keep some of them as spares as their rentals would eventually wear out. This was to no avail and they were all cut up. As an aside: About a year later the rentals they had began failing and of course there were no replacements readily available.
Jim