benedw60 Posted November 10, 2018 Report Share Posted November 10, 2018 There is an auction on gunbroker with an a original barrel that is internally threaded for a blank adapter. Did auto ordnance make blank firing adapters and or barrels or is this a modification after the fact? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndArmored Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 The latter. Hollywood studios employed "internal" blank adapters to make the guns look unaltered to the audience. But Uncle Sam doesn't like his property buggered up, so the adapters are applied externally & temporarily without altering the weapon. https://www.rangerjoes.com/Blank-Firing-Adapter-Red-fits-AR15M16-P16457.aspx It also lets everyone know that it's attached, so a shooter is less likely to load a live round (which would "be bad"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 There was a blank adapter for the M1921, sans compensator. Discussion here: http://www.machinegunboards.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21662&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantpanda4 Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 I just bought a couple boxes of Peters blanks. they say the same note on the back as the regular ammo - "for use in... Thompson Submachineguns". I don't know the vintage of the ammo, I will get a pic up later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandman1957 Posted November 16, 2018 Report Share Posted November 16, 2018 Back in the day when I was a young Lieutenant at Camp Lejeune units had to do "Dog and Pony" shows for visiting dignitaries. The duty to do these was rotated among units. During one of those, the "Attack on a bunker" had Marines defending a bunker and other Marines attacking the bunker. Blanks, smoke and demo were used to simulate actual battle. All the Blank Firing Attachments (BFAs) were red or orange so you could clearly see that the guns were not "live". During one of these events (not my unit) someone mixed live ammo into some blank ammo and the M60 in the bunker firing at the attacking Marines went "live" The first couple of live rounds blew the BFA and the end of the barrel off the M60. I think only about 5 live rounds went downrange, but it killed one Marine who was attacking, and the shrapnel from the barrel injured two or more of the marines (gunner and a/gunner) in the bunker. Never heard the result of the investigation on how the ammo got into the blanks, but NCIS always had a role in those kinds of events. On another note, one technique we used in my battalion when we were training "off campus", ie not Camp Lejeune or on Marine bases, was the Radio Operators in the Rifle Companies never had BFAs on their M16s. (They are always in arms length of the Lieutenant or Company Commander). For example when we did some training in the Nantahallah National Forrest, The Lieutenants and Company Commanders had Live rounds for their 45s, and a magazine pouch of M16 ammo. That way if some local yokel with a shot gun etc wanted to steal our M16s, M60s etc the radio operator just had to hand his rifle to the Officer. Likewise, when we were in Alaska doing Cold Weather training, we had two M14s per platoon with live ammo for bears. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Sergeant Posted November 21, 2018 Report Share Posted November 21, 2018 I saw and handled an original BFD with the AUT-ORD-CO logo last Saturday. They do exist and not just in old time movie scenes of the Tommy Gun shooting out of a car that we have all seen dozens of times. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantpanda4 Posted November 22, 2018 Report Share Posted November 22, 2018 Pics attached of blank ammo. Note it says specifically for the Thompson as well as the 1911.I am fairly sure the red "P" boxes are pre-WWII, not sure of the other one's vintage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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