Frank I.

If you own the gun on a form 4 and are a now dealer, you can transfer it into your virtual inventory tax-free on a paper form 5, along with an explanation of wanting to add it to your eform account.

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There were special "sniper" variants of the M14, designated as the XM21, during the Vietnam era, usually fitted with a ART scope. During the U.S. involvement in the Middle East, M14s were pulled from storage, because of their longer range over the M16/M4, and fitted with modern optics. The ones I have photographed had the "M14" ground off and remarked XM21, all had selector locks. BTW the M14 in your picture has a selector lock on it, limiting its function to semi-auto. The images of the XM21 rifles have locks on them, the Winchester M14 has a selector lever on it. Most M14s were issued with selector locks on them due in part to their difficulty to control in the full-auto mode.

For a weapon that served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East, spare parts are somewhat hard to find, except magazines, which are easily found NIW.

Some common and not-so-common grease guns

This thread has drifted off the original topic... The letter P is a firing proof mark. As far as a manufacturing date, that's hard to determine, but here are some manufacturing figures. I only researched M3A1 numbers/dates because of the often-reported 15,469 number, which was incorrect based on known serial number ranges of M3A1s. Total submachine guns manufactured from 1943 to 1945 by Guide Lamp: 606,694 M3, and 82,281 M3A1 models, for a total of 688,975 weapons. During subsequent research, the author of this book discovered that the reported 15,469 M3A1 production figure was actually a typographical error in the Ordnance Department’s Log of Significant Purchases. The actual Guide Lamp M3A1 production figures are listed below. These corrected figures were obtained by the author from the Cincinnati Ordnance District records that the Guide Lamp plant reported to during World War II. Guide Lamp M3A1 PRODUCTION (1945 only) April 30,117 May 26,000 June 17,164 July 9,000 August: production canceled.

It is a common question. Myself and others have sought such a list for years, without success. A list with approximately 1.5 million Thompson serial numbers on it would be very, VERY large. In the American Thunder III book there are several contract documents, manufacturing lists, and shipping records. These can be used to get an approximate date, but there are no individual lists by serial number.

You can get a rough idea from these figures Total submachine guns manufactured from 1943 to 1945 by Guide Lamp: 606,694 M3, and 82,281 M3A1 models, for a total of 688,975 weapons.

I was sorting old research documents and found this letter from Dolf Goldsmith dated 1999. In 1971, he bid on 66 Reisings and won them with a bid of $21.00/each and sold them for $35.-$40.00. Today's value? $500k + I recall seeing Reisings for sale in the mid 1980s for $165.00, however, the general mindset was " I am not paying a $200.00 tax on a $165.00 gun". I bought my first Reising in 1991 for $695.00.

Attached are pages from an M3 Ordnance publication at the National Archives II in College Park, Maryland. There is also one for the M3A1, but I didn't copy it. The publications are a complete guide on how to manufacture an M3 submachine gun, drawings, parts lists, labor hours, material etc. The attached lists are of WWII subcontractors. As mentioned earlier, there were a large number of post-WWII subcontractors used to support the weapons during the Korean War, Vietnam War, and up to the year 1999, when they were still issued to reserve armor units. A post-war example is magazines not listed, made by Ithaca (ITG) for their post-war production of M3A1s, and Jahn (J) who had a contract for magazines during the Vietnam War. Jahn magazines have a green phosphatized finish and are fairly common and found still new in the wrap. Jahn also made 30-round magazines for the M1-M2 carbines. To answer your Marlin barrel question, yes the same company that made sporting firearms

FS was Fostoria Screw Co. Fostoria, Ohio made FS marked barrel collars. DTD was the Detroit Transmission Division, the Hydra-Matic Division made M16A1 rifles during the Vietnam War . Listed in the Guide Lamp's 1944 subcontractors list. There were a diverse number of postwar manufacturers of M3A1 parts. Some have CAGE codes. I'm not sure when CAGE codes became a requirement, but it was fairly recent? In another thread here, I listed an M3A1 bolt with a cage code 16447 which is/was Milo Components Inc. Freeport, NY. They also made 1911A1 pistol parts for the government. I once had a chrome-lined Vietnam-era barrel, the collar was made by Marlin

Found!

Philadelphia Ordnance once made trigger frames... I agree it doesn't look roll marked, looks engraved, or laser-engraved (to me)

I don't think the firing pin would be a contributing factor. The first bolt broke with an OEM pin, the second one with a modified-inertia titanium pin.

Thanks for your input... Off topic but, Since you know the guys at Indy Ordnance you should suggest to them to make repro Bolts for the S&W 76 / MK760 subguns. I will buy the first one! As I'm sure you are aware, parts are virtually nonexistent for those guns. A few surface on GB occasionally, I saw one that sold for nearly 1k!

Both of mine sheared completely off like this one. All the springs in my M50 are Wolff, which seem to increase the cyclic rate of fire. The Wolff action bar spring is longer and has a fair amount more tension than an original MAYBE that is a contributing factor? NOTE: Both were original H&R factory Reising bolts, including the one pictured below

Yes, the PO has gotten really SLOW. I bought some 230 .45 bullets for reloading from Precision Delta, who normally has free shipping thru the PO. They have a warning on their website that if you choose the PO free shipping don't inquire about where your package is for 4-weeks. I bought some magazines from Tennessee that took 3 weeks Priority Mail to be delivered; they sat in a distribution hub and didn't move for weeks. MAYBE the PO is having some slow-down/protest to all the federal cutbacks? IMHO FedEx is the absolute worst of them all, their approval rate is 87% negative... ---END OF RANT--

Try posting on one of the M14 specific boards https://www.m14forum.com/ https://www.m14br.com/

Since buying my Reising in 1990, I have broken 2 bolts. I sent one to Indianapolis Ordnance as a model for manufacturing repro-bolts suggesting that they radius the area where the action bar fits to prevent breakage in the area, which has sharp corners on the factory bolts. Their bolts have this radius... My question is has anyone broken a reproduction Indianapolis Ordnance bolt?

The reinforcement strap was designed for M1A1 Thompsons with the "easier to manufacture" riveted grip mount, which was prone to breaking under stress from a carry sling. The strap reduced the stress placed on the mount. If the mount failed the foregrip would fall off. The barrel needed to be removed to replace the grip mount. For pictures and details see American Thunder III pages 185 and 305

From a good source the number is approximately 1400.

I have two coming tomorrow, I'll let you know the condition. UPDATE FedEx mistakenly delivered them to an Amazon warehouse on a pallet of returns. FedEx says there is little chance of recovery, so file a claim. Two NOS 80-year-old grips were probably thrown in the trash.

To remove the barrel from the receiver remnant... weld a nut on the cut receiver and spin it off with an air wrench.

Thanks!

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