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Look here for prices. https://bowmanarms.com/parts-kits/m1a1-thompson-parts-kit/ https://royaltigerimports.com/product-category/parts-kits/

Its not only time, but strategic materials. The tool steel for the stamp may have been better used somewhere else.

Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.

Great pics Stampcollector, Thanks for sharing them.

The six looks like an overstamp on a five. Maybe Friday on the Savage assembly line, and Joe grabbed the wrong stamp, whoopsie, then got the six and a light strike on the zero. Ya never know.

Thats a nice lot of M3 parts there. I have not bought in a while so can't help on price. Barrel and stock hold most value. Prices have exploded on GG parts.

Can't help with the dates, Very nice Bren. Lots of history there.

Thanks Frank I. I have an advanced neanderthals technical abilities. I was lucky just to get it posted.

Compliments to Mongo for a cleaner copy. With material specs.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/TM-9-1005-229-35.pdf Like Mongo said, a slot will weaken it. But it will still have more area than an M3A1 plate.

Cut a slot in the plate to clear the ejector. Why not just remove the housing?

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Here is the link to the BAR prints in the Internet Archive. Free to download. https://archive.org/details/M1918BrowningAutomaticRifleBlueprints/page/n1/mode/2up They are a great library and an asset to all of us. If you like the prints, think about donating to keep this stuff available. (If this is not allowed, please delete)

You can see the difference in the cast and machined trigger housings. Even after machining the Arma Steel casting has a grainier, even pitted, surface finish than the smooth surface of steel. Is your gun parked or blued? The steel ones I've seen were blued. If parked it would have been sand blasted and harder to tell. Maybe that will help. Also found this interesting. http://www.90thidpg.us/Equipment/Articles/BARStocks2/index.html

From Wiki. Production rates greatly increased in 1943, after IBM introduced a method of casting BAR receivers from a new type of malleable iron developed by the Saginaw division of General Motors, called ArmaSteel.[28]After it successfully passed a series of tests at Springfield Armory, the Chief of Ordnance instructed other BAR receiver manufacturers to change over from steel to ArmaSteel castings for this part.[28] During the Korean War M1918A2 production was resumed, this time contracted to the Royal McBee Typewriter Co., which produced an additional 61,000 M1918A2s.[29]

68 coupe, if there is not enough detail. I can try and email it to you. If you are on Weapons Guild, I put the complete set in their library.

I'll try again

Here are some pics of mine.

If this is not allowed, please delete. Try asking over on 1919A4.com Maybe he can help. Aaron - Mohnton, Pa | BeltFeds.Com, LLC / Stryker Defense | FFL 07 / 02 SOT Email: Sales@BeltFeds.Com

Restrictions on our rights to own firearms were enacted for our protection. Thats the polite way to say it. https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/4332/amendment 1. H.Amdt.777 — 99th Congress (1985-1986) Description: An amendment to make it unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machinegun except in the case of a machinegun that was lawfully possessed before the date of enactment. ( 1986 ) Sponsor: Hughes, William J. [Rep.-D-NJ-2] (Offered 04/10/1986) Latest Action: 04/10/86 Amendment Passed in Committee of the Whole by Voice Vote. (All Actions) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act The Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (FOPA) The Act also contained a provision that banned the sale to civilians of machine guns manufactured after the date of enactment, restricting sales of these weapons to the military and law enforcement. Thus, in the ensuing years, the limited supply of these arms available to civilians has caused an enormous increase in their price, with most costing in excess of $10,000. Regarding these fully-automatic firearmsowned by private citizens in the U.S., political scientist Earl Kruschke said "approximately 175,000 automatic firearms have been licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (the federal agency responsible for administration of the law) and evidence suggests that none of these weapons has ever been used to commit a violent crime."[3]: 85 

Just saw this. https://www.keepshooting.com/robert-stack-thompson-smg-case-by-gordon-herigstad.html

Another good book. The US M3/M3A1 Submachine Gun: The Complete History of America’s Famed “Grease Gun” Hardcover – January 28, 2021 by Michael Heidler (Author)

These are the numbers I was given when I did mine. 1918 FA. .055/.063/.0725 OOW semi. .076/.0885/.093 I was told I could go to .110"

I have seen ArmaSteel M2HB barrel supports with that plum color.

Drott340, I have an NOS ITG barrel. I can get you some specific dimension if you want.