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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

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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.
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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

 

 

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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.

 

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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
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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

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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
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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
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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

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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
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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 =>

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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.
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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
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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

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