Grease Gunner

How in the world did anyone reassemble the gun when the pilots did not have the hole to capture the spring???

Ron, got both!!

new drum but great cause.......If it was a numbered drum,it would be a no brainer ,buy all the tickets for 2k and win a 6000 plus drum!!!

Got my M6 fix, Thanks to the folks at Morphy auctions. In case you guys dont know, John Keene is the NFA specialist and a very honest upstanding guy who will not blow smoke and give you the real skippy. I have been very pleased with him.

I have an original manual. PM me your address and I will mail it to you at no charge

sale is pending

It has an "r" stamped on it and its shiny nickel colored

I may need one possibly I have one but when i put it in the gun, using PK spring and pk buffer/pilot It wont detonate. It runs flawless with the original 28 setup any ideas?

The buyer premium is now 20% since Morphy took over and 23% if by card A grease gun m3 prototype went cheap at 23 in my opinion and the bargain of the day was a new in box colt 9mm M16 and i think its the second one made for 21,000!!

My friend has now decided to sell it $6,000 plus shipping

Cox claims that Floyd was shot by two "police Model 1921ACs". This can be interpreted that either two officers of the ELPD fired them or that the FBI agents fired them. The former is unlikely, as the FBI report in #62-28915 mentions only two "machine guns" in the entire 8-man party (four ELPD, four FBI), and names Special Agents Hopton and McKee as the machine gunners. The latter is also unlikely, as the FBI by 22-OCT-1934 had considerable numbers of their own Thompsons -- and those were Model 1928AC Navys. The FBI files also do not mention that they had borrowed any weapons from the ELPD, as far as I can tell. I've found Cox's book to not be entirely accurate at times ... Herigstad refers to Cox and gives no more information. Interestingly, neither No. 6923 nor No. 14033 had been sold in Ohio until 26-JUL-1934, according to Federal Laboratories. This means they were either acquired by ELPD between late July and late October 1934, or, perhaps more likely, after that date. Meaning they were not actually used in the killing of Floyd. Which frankly makes more sense, since why would the FBI guys NOT bring their own Thompsons? And why would the ELPD give up its only two Thompsons to the FBI guys, forcing them to face the notoriously deadly Floyd with revolvers and lever-action carbines? The man had already killed a number of lawmen, one of them in a duel with a Thompson gun-armed former sheriff while Floyd himself had only a pistol ... I'd be happy to be surprised with contradicting information (I mean, it would be a historic artifact), but I fear this is yet another try to attach a famous name to a gun to increase its value. Cheers HANS Hans, Thanks for that...What you say makes more sense and RIA seems to really be playing up some hype to an event thats still cloudy after 85 years!!!

I will buy one!!

The anchor on the front is what Colt's had. They numbered the rear of the stock and the buttplate so they could match up after refinishing. Pistol grips and foregrip is not my forte The buttplate matches

The TSMG was not from FBU but Purvis Borrowed them and then returned them to the PD where they sat for decades. It seems to be a story thats not verifiable.. From Rock Island "his is an excellent example of an original, fully automatic late production Colt M1921 Thompson Submachine gun that, as noted above, was actually 1 of 2 documented Thompson Submachine guns that helped gun down the notorious 1930s era gangster Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. This serial number and accounting is documented on page 51 of the book "The Thompson Submachine Gun" by Roger Cox. Staying on the move for over a year, Floyd slipped through a number of ambushes until his luck ran out near East Liverpool, Ohio, in October of 1934. On the road with Adam Richetti, another man accused of being at the massacre, Floyd's party crashed their car in a dense fog disabling the vehicle. Attempting to hide out while their female companions arranged a tow, the gangsters were spotted, resulting in a shootout with local law, Richetti was captured, the local police chief took a bullet through his foot, and Floyd was on the run in the woods. From here, multiple sources confirm that A) a detachment of FBI men led by Melvin Purvis, himself famous for taking out Dillinger, arrived on the scene, the FBI men requisitioned two Thompson submachine guns, identified by serial number and including this very Tommy Gun, from the East Liverpool Police Department, and C) Pretty Boy Floyd caught a fatal case of lead poisoning from Purvis' team on October 22nd, 1934. From here, things get fuzzy. The FBI and local law enforcement have their own version of events, as do some of the participants. As the locals told it, one of their own, a retired lawman and decorated WWI marksman Chester Smith non-lethally dropped Floyd with 2 well aimed shots with a Winchester rifle, and when he got back up again the FBI opened up, putting the gangster down permanently. In later years, Smith gave his own version of events, in which Floyd didn't get back up; after his two shots, Purvis and his men closed distance on the incapacitated gangster, asked Floyd for a confession about Kansas, and when they were rebuffed, cut him down with one of their Thompsons on Purvis' direct order. The FBI version of events was that Purvis' team found Floyd without any local assistance, and proceeded to shoot him down when he tried to come at them with a .45 caliber pistol. After the event, Purvis' team returned the Thompson to the inventory of the East Liverpool Police Department, which kept the item in their inventory until 1974 when it was acquired by the Law Enforcement Ordnance Company and it later entered the collection of Tom Keefe in 1979 and then Buddy Oden in 1992. This particular machine gun is a very late production model as only 15,000 were manufactured in total with this one being serial number "14033". Almost all of them were later converted into the M1928A1 configuration. Like others say, Buy the gun not the story.....One thing is for certain. This was handled by FBU and it was fired in the encounter Grease Gunner 10/23/2018

choppero: Are you saying you will ro wont make them?

Rock Island Flyer Says that an Excellent 1921 Fully Documented TSMG That Killed Pretty Boy Floyd is For Sale in the Nov30th-Dec 2 Auction Since The Ruby Gun that killed Oswald Fetched $220k My prediction is $500,000

I was the seller in that early august sale for 4495. GIjive was 100% right on with his post. Yes, did see one sell for 7k but they are not worth that. 4000 to 5500 is a range you could use as a rule of thumb. good luck MP

How many Savage Commercials are out there ? I never see any for sale,

Hi, Anyone know of availability and where I can get a extractor and whatever else goes with it like a retaining pin and screw for the above sub gun? I just received one missing the whole extractor Thanks fellow board members! I can buy a complete bolt assembly for 230 shipped which is a lot to pay for an extractor!!

i will register it on a form 2 as I am a 07/02 i will register it on a form 2 as I am a 07/02

95mustang.........Thanks a lot!!

ended at 15676... someone got a deal!!

I have an extra 1928 stock with all the metal and the latching plate so that can be adapted where can i get this adapter plate? Thanks If you find the diagram, please send me a link to it

I was caught up in the auction hopin to be at 14 or less. From talking to TD. , a west hurley receiver can possibly be out of spec. He said these were 400 or 500 bucks when they were made so there wasnt a lot of quality control . Continuous shooting could damage the receiver. Thats why PK was charging in the 3k range and at one point had a 3 year wait. and I think its like 5 years now

Its at $15,600 with 24 hours to go. Not a great time to end an auction IMHO. Seller claims GI Bolt and Internals PK is extremely backed up so I dropped out I have no interest in the gun anymore and dont know the seller https://www.gunbroker.com/item/786445249