full auto 45 Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 For Sale: 1 West Hurley 1928. Low # 58*A, only had a few thousand or so rounds down the barrel. Great condition, can be seen in many Thompson videos and books. No drum or mags with the gun. First $8,000 gets the gun. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cool.gif Sorry, SOLD http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Thompsons: The five figure gun! $XX,XXX! It will only get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffen Und Bier Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 I'm still kicking myself in the behind for selling a C&R AR18 for $3800 about 3 years ago. That was market then (I threw in a bunch of original accessories). They are more than double that now. They were sleepers for many, many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Jr Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Savage and AO 28 are pushing 20K now. This puts an 80% colt in the 30's easy. Its not getting any better either. I know of at least 10 guns in the last 30 days that have come off of the market into private collections and they are not for sale at ANY PRICE. If you dont have one and want one, buy today and pay more than you think its worth. If you have one keep it. Its worth 1000 more every 2 months that goes by... Jr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle Posted July 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 QUOTE (PhilOhio @ Jul 15 2004, 01:26 AM)It's all very transient by nature. And the whole thing could go bust, over some surprise legislative curve ball. It happened in 1986 and it can happen again. We might be telling ourselves how foolish it was to have sunk all that money in guns that got melted. Phil... I think you are dead on. I'm fearful that sometime in the future the Feds will prohibit transfers of Title II firearms. I'll be able to keep my Thompson until I die but then its off to the the furnace. And it won't be some semi-legit, democratic vote of Congress that will do it. It will be obscure executive order by a President with his own secret agenda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21 smoker Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 The bottom line is....`it`s just dirty green paper`....it is replaceable.... you can go to work tomorrow and start to replace the money you spent yesterday...hopefully on a thompson...you can`t readily replace a thompson or a BAR or a beltfed etc...sometimes this is a hard lesson...just from alot I have learned here,one thing is clear to me..I never,ever sold an NFA,and don`t plan to... http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle Posted July 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 This gun isn't a Thompson, but what do you think about a $30k C&R BAR? http://www.subguns.com/classifieds/index.c...query=retrieval BARs are neat guns but I'd much rather have a Thompson. All of a sudden, $16k for a M1 doesn't seem so crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle Posted July 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Also, probably not a bad price for a NIB Westie... http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/nfa4sale....cgi?read=47088 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z3BigDaddy Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 QUOTE (Lafayette Gregory @ Jul 14 2004, 04:02 PM) http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif Maybe a way to get the prices in control are in our hands? Someone mentioned boycott. Well thats fine but as someone else said there will always be a guy with plenty of money and no brains. Why not every Thompson owner make a posting for a reasonable price for their gun. Just maybe your wife gets to buy it first and it may be sold fast. At least you will be controling the asking price if not the selling price. OH, by the way don't tell your wife about this as she might take you seriously. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/tongue.gif Welcome to the corporate world of price fixing...... Ah the Enron/Thompson Greedâ„¢ connection! ROTFLMAO http://www.pregnancy.org/phpBB2/images/smiles/121liwlol.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawksnest Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Z3BigDaddy: After years of wondering what ROTFLMAO meant I finally figured it out thanks to your smiley face rolling on the floor laughing HAO! Am I slow or what? http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNKen Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 And the $42,000 MG-42!!!!! And the $82,500 Stoner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter63a Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Hawksnest, don't feel bad. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif I didn't know what it meant either, until observing how it was used on this board too. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif There are still some computer acronyms/abbreviations which baffle me. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/unsure.gif I wish there was a dictionary for such things. There probably is somewhere out there in cyberspace! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cool.gif Regards, Walter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondAmend Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Walter, et al., www.acronymfinder.com has about everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffen Und Bier Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 I know what you mean, Phil. Basically, the only time I sold (actually usually traded) MG's is when I wanted to upgrade or get into a more expensive gun or if the gun didn't do it for me anymore. Crappy MP5 conversion or '21 Thompson? Hmmmm.....???? http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/unsure.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter63a Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Thanks SecondAmend! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif That is a good resource. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif Regards, Walter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFalGuy Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 WellGuys, I don't know if this is a world record or not but it seems close- COLT THOMPSON BARREL THREADED FOR THE LG. COMP W/O COMP(HAVE 2) $2K OBO EARLY ACTUATOR WITH THE INDENTATION IN THE FRONT $1K OBO COMPLETE BOLT W/LOCK $2.5K OBO COMPLETE WOOD SET MATCHING NUMBERS 2K OBO NY 3RD DRUM 2.5K OBO ALL FOR 10K On sturmgwehr now- to ignorant me http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif it 1/3 the price of a complete Colt Thompson- Think I would rather have the whole thing myself than less than a parts kit (granted there aren't any 21 kits around right now) Maybe I am lucky to have just a doggy WH 1928. Chime in => Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Fliegenheimer Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Wuff! Wufff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
full auto 45 Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Wasn't Gordon selling his parts kits for something like $4500 with the violin stand at the SAR show? Complete but the receiver was cut. Had a plate or something underneath tacked on to hold it together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFalGuy Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Mike, I saw his table but was hunting mg 42's that day so don't recall his kits-still that is half as much- but gee whiz that 10K was awful strong to me, especially without the lower group but heck I don't know diddly it seems. Ever think this hobby is awful close to being on Crack !! ??? http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondAmend Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Yeah, a few months back the guy on Subguns had the untransferrable PD 21 as "parts" for $6K. I believe he ended up selling it to another PD for $6K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colt21a Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 gordon i think had two of them they both sold on sunday i think,for $8,000.00 for the pair or something like that.........sad at one time you could buy a nice 21ac for that...........and afford to shoot it.........but heck that was way back in history around 1998 wink!! oh yes such a long time ago.............pretty bad all the guys who bought them then. can't afford to buy one at todays prices.......so they have to keep what they have or lose it forever!! and the beat go's on..ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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