![]() ![]() The guts may have been de-auto’d, the barrels may have been extended, and the selector switch may have been reduced to two positions instead of three, but the unmistakably quintessential Tommy gun profile is still instantly recognizable. The Thompson remains a legendary and iconic weapon, retaining sufficient appeal for Auto-Ordnance to keep on trucking, year after year, with its line of semi-auto configurations that carry on the legend (at least in appearance) without mortgaging the house to acquire. Count me among that latter category by the way. We all know the Thompson’s history in the hands of good guys and bad, we all know the full-auto Thompson is long obsolete in its original roles as both trench and street sweeper, hideously expensive, not likely to ever be available to the common man or woman again in brand-new form, and relegated to the collector and the wistful wannabe collector. Few firearms in the history of gunpowder require less introduction than the famed Tommy gun, a major player on both the battlefields of WWII and the mean streets of gangland Chicago.
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