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    9mm SMG, also hunting wild hogs at night on foot in my pastures with a subsonic, suppressed rifle- it's a rush!

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  1. Beautiful job! What a keeper. I have half a dozen items John assembled or fixed for me. His work is worth the wait. I have an MP40 tube gun that I may dig out this weekend, its been a while since she has been shot. Is Johns business address still at the gun range in Manchester,NH? At his former shop in Freedom NH he would simply shoot out of a shop window into the side of a hill.
  2. Thanks for sharing. I always enjoy watching mag dumps, fun to see.
  3. I will check. Almost certain I have one. RFA
  4. I hired a lawyer to form an estate trust, kids get the earnings from the trust investments Part of the deal is an agreement with a private banker ( division of Wells Fargo) to manage the estate sale ( for a %fee) including the NFA items. They also manage the estate trust investments. Both the lawyer and private banker had experience with NFA items, that was part of the discussion. Kids were happy they dont have to deal with it. All my original ATF form 1 & 4 are in individual slip sheets in a notebook in the safe.
  5. I promptly received a signed copy purchased from his website. Spent several enjoyable hours reading it.
  6. Posted in Traces of Texas Facebook group. Smoots Thompson jammed. Dallas Sheriff R.A. "Smoot" Schmid sometime in the 1930s. Smoot had a long, colorful career in law enforcement. Here's his 1963 obituary: Obituary published in The Dallas Morning News, July 02, 1963. Richard Allen "Smoot" Schmid 28th Sheriff (b. 4 September 1897, Dallas County, Texas d. 30 June 1963, Dallas County, Texas) was from a family of four sons and a daughter born to Annie Forler, born in Canada, and Abraham Schmid, a wood turner who came to Dallas in 1884 from Switzerland. Sheriff Schmid was born near what is now Garland, he attended William B. Travis Elementary, then Bryan Street High School (later known as Norman Robert Crozier Technical High School) and Jefferson University which was located at Harwood and Jackson Streets, in Dallas. He got the nickname of Smoot while playing football in high school. He was 6 foot, 5 ½ inches tall, talked like Andy Devine and wore a size 14 shoe. In 1938 he had his name legally changed to R. A. Smoot Schmid so voters would not be confused. The Richard Allen came from Dr. Richard Allen the familys physician who attended his Mother. Schmid owned Smoots Guaranty Cycle Company at 2016 Commerce Street, a bicycle shop. To boost business for his bicycle shop he became an expert rider. When motorcycles came in he took up riding one and used to astound onlookers by standing on the seat, his arms outspread, as the machine sped along. On 08 Apr 1931 he married Signe Croeger Wollebak, a widow from Chicago, Cook County, IL. She and her first husband Thorwald Thor Wollebak came to Dallas and became neighbors, on Reiger Street, of the Schmid family. Signe and her first husband had two boys David Leif Wollebak and Robert T Wollebak both born in Chicago. He was first elected Sheriff in 1932 as the dark horse, he did not have any law enforcement background, in a field of five Democratic candidates, including the incumbent Sheriff Howell Hal Alexander Hood. He ran for office on the pledge that he could run the office on less than $200,000 per year. Once Schmid became the Democratic nominee he announced a number of ambitious plans for his administration. One was to feed the prisoners all they can eat and give them three, instead of two meals a day, and to see that the strictest standard of cleanliness was observed in the serving of food. Another was to put a system in place to keep a better accounting of the jail prisoners. This would be a card index listing, giving a description of each prisoner with his signature. When a prisoner is brought down to be released, the jailer would check the description against the man before him and compare signatures to prevent any walkout. He continued to practice to become a better pistol shot and stated I guess Ill have to carry a pistol, peoplell criticize if I dont. When he took office 1 January 1933 he had fifty-six deputies, only six were left from the administration of Sheriff Hood. He hired Precinct 1 Deputy Constable James Eric "Bill" Decker to be his Chief Deputy. He instituted the patrol division in 1933; deputies provided their own cars and were subsidized for mileage by the county. At that time deputies were given two-way radios for their patrol cars and dispatching was done through the City of Dallas. Uniformed deputies first appeared at this time, but deputies had to pay for them on an installment plan. The rudiments of a criminal identification system were begun. He implemented night patrols with four sets of automobile patrol officers covering the entire county all night long and kept the Sheriffs Department open 24 hours a day. Dallas County Jail Chili supposedly originated in the 1930s by Sheriff Schmid and he became famous for it. Chili was served every Friday night in the Jail. Julia Lee Wright, nationally famous food authority, saluted his Chili as one of the ten best recipes since 1933 in a food article which had nationwide circulation. She stated I have tasted the superlative Smoot Schmid chile. This dish is prepared in the clean, well-run jail kitchen in Dallas, which I visited. It is the best chile I ever tasted. It was Schmids boast that his customers rated his chili as the best ever served behind bars. In 1933, Congress amended the Volstead Act (known as the National Prohibition Act) to permit the sale of beer; and in August 1933, the voters in Texas adopted an amendment to the State Constitution legalizing the sale of beer. On 5 December 1933 Prohibition comes to an end. Dallas was not a tame City in the 1930. The Clyde Barrow Gang and others plagued Sheriff Schmids early years in office. On 22 November 1933 on the way to a prearranged meeting with their families, some say as part of a 59th birthday celebration for Clydes mother, near Sowers at the corner of Esters Road and the Ft Worth Pike (now Highway 183), Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed in a trap laid for them by Sheriff Schmid. Sheriff Schmid and Deputy Ted Cass Hinton (Schmid had taken Hinton under his wing at age 11 when Hinton was a Western Union messenger and appointed him as a Deputy when he was elected) were armed with Thompson .45 Caliber submachine guns, Deputy Edmond Castor (had been a Deputy since 1919) with a .351 bullhead repeating rifle and Deputy Robert F. Bob Alcorn (had be a Deputy since 1925) with a borrowed Browning automatic rifle. It is believed that Deputy Millard Edgar Sweatt was also present. About 6:45 pm Bonnie and Clyde show up in a black, two door, 1933 Ford V-8. Clyde tells Bonnie it seems phony tonight I dont feel good about stopping as he rolled past the parked car containing their families. Clyde quickly shifted into second and pressed the gas pedal to the floor just as a stream of bullets slammed into the drivers side door from the lawmen hidden in a ditch some seventy-five feet away. Sheriff Smoot's Thompson had jammed from the onset to where he could not get off a single shot. Ed Caster, and Bob Alcorn were the best armed. It was Alcorn's rounds which penetrated the outlaws car, wounding both Bonnie and Clyde in the knees during their escape. They escape with minor wounds but the Ford has three flat tires, and large gaping holes in the wheel well, door, and hood, lengths of shredded metal dangle from the ceiling of the car. Charles Stovall's Dairy sat off in the distance, and one round from the posse had smashed through the window of the Stovall family's home, flying glass caused a neck wound to Mrs. Stovall. Both Deputies Alcorn and Hinton participated in the killing of Barrow and Bonnie Parker. On 9 September 1934 twenty nine year old Deputy Cecil Vincent Chapman was shot in the head and killed while he and his partner, Deputy Bryan Peck were on a stakeout for two robbery suspects who had been robbing couples. The officers were sitting in their police car near Walnut Hill and Midway Road when the two suspects drove past them, turned around, and returned to the car. One of the suspects got out of the car and approached the officers with his gun drawn. A shootout ensued and Deputy Chapman and one of the suspects, Eugene Lane were both fatally wounded. The other officer was also wounded but able to take the second suspect LaRoy Lane into custody. Less than a month later Lane was convicted of murder on 4 October 1934 by a Dallas County Jury in Judge Grover Adams court. Lane was electrocuted at the penitentiary in Huntsville on 25 January 1935. The Texas Centennial Exposition was held at Fair Park in Dallas, 6 June to 29 November 1936 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas's independence from Mexico in 1836. The event attracted 6,353,827 visitors, and cost around $25 million. The exposition was credited for buffering Dallas from the Great Depression, creating over 10,000 jobs and giving a $50 million boost to the local economy. Dallas landed the Texas Centennial celebration because of its reputation as a swinging town. Dallas was the gambling mecca until Las Vegas opened up. By the mid-1930s Lester Ben Benny Binion had a virtual monopoly on gambling in Dallas, during WW II there were 27 Casinos in downtown Dallas, by 1946 Binion had lost his hold on local politicians and by 1947 had moved on to Las Vegas to take ad- vantage of legal gambling and five years later purchased the El Dorado Casino on Fremont Street and renamed it the Horseshoe Casino. He became the patron saint of the World Series of Poker, which he started in 1970. Binion and Sheriff Schmid were good friends and Binions Horseshoe Casino downstairs coffee shop served Sheriff Schmids famous Chili. Binion was also a good friend of Sheriff Schmids Chief Deputy, and later Sheriff Bill Decker. The Texas Rangers conducted numerous raids on Dallas gambling halls, but with little success. The Gamblers were tipped off and were always gone by the time the Rangers arrived. In 1938 he became the first man to win a fourth term as Sheriff and served through 1946. In March 1939 Sheriff Schmid made a plea to the Commissioners Court for four additional deputies to give his staff of twenty-two jailers a six day work week rather than seven day week. He was turned down by a three to two decision. For the year ending 1 December 1945 the Sheriffs Department patrol answered 5,233 radio calls; made 4,845 investigations; 1,819 arrests and drove 178,975 patrol miles. In July 1941 Smoot was elected President of the Texas Sheriffs Association. After his term as Sheriff he was chosen by Texas Governor Beauford H. Jeter to be a member of the state prison Board of Pardons and Paroles for six years, he was sworn in on 20 February 1947. His next job was as Chief Inspector of the Texas Department of Agriculture based in Dallas. He was a member of the Dallas and State Bar Association. He and his family were members of the Central Christian Church. Schmid died at his home at age 65. He is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.
  7. Hanging from ceiling joists in his garage ? He didn’t hide them very well. Wonder who saw them and called the police?
  8. If you would have paid the transaction fee to PayPal, you would have recourse,as a seller. I buy non-gun related items such as tools on EBay and always pay the PayPal fee I avoid PayPal for anything gun related. They locked up both my account and seller’s over a flash hider. It was legal in both states ( Texas and North Carolina) so PP eventually backed down and unlocked tboth accounts.
  9. I bought two, registered Sterling tubes directly from Doug & Linda years ago. I thought they were easy to deal with on both occasions. They were in Arcadia, Fl. Called him, agreed on details, mailed him a check. His transfers to my dealer were approved lightning fast. Way back, he got very combative with BATF over 1985 machine gun ban and apparently “ won” and has some kind of special agreement on approval of transfers. Lots of Internet history on him, ATF, his “ militia”, etc. He apparently made a pile of money making transferable tubes and side plates.
  10. Andy Blaschik at KGB Armory in Florida built one for my Medea M3A1. The shell looks like a Bell Lab silencer but has modern baffles. He also built an integral Sterling Mk5 and a STEn MKIIS integral silencer for me. He used to win everyear at Knob Creek subgun match with a Beretta PM12. Andy Blaschik ‭(954) 274-6962‬ tacticalacademy@bellsouth.net 2215 W McNab Road Unit 51 Pompano Beach Florida 33069
  11. I also need one for my M3A1. Willing to share costs with you. Thanks
  12. Gotta be careful with this one. Has a Russian email name, (V.Zaitszev13@gmail ) for a dentist named Malcolm Foster in Brunswick Maine.
  13. I have the same question. Does anyone have any experience with the mags Numrich is selling? Also are there any post WWII mags ( such as East German) available? Thanks RFA
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