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Surprisingly enough, Lowe's Home improvement has felt discs that are about 98% accurate to the original wartime pieces in all dimensions. I think they are for cushioning drawers and cabinet doors or something.....They are in the misc. hardware section of all Lowe's. Look in the pull out drawers..... Cheap, too. Dropped in the butt stock with an oil bottle, you can't tell the difference.

I am the author of that article series. Is there anything I can answer for you?? -Tom Hoel

Be careful what you wish for. People too young to remember, or too unfamiliar with the general lay of the legal landscape often times advocate for another "new" Amnesty. This is a two edged sword. Before we all go advocating for the (few) positive aspects of another Amnesty, stop to consider the bad possibilities. ATF has been in a talking mood any number of times in recent decades on this topic, but their position is that any new amnesty will be a "final amnesty" and that they want to set a point in time where after ALL the NFRTR records are considered, legally, fully "accurate". What they want, knowing full well now that any current prosecution against the current NFRTR registry data is highly suspect and largely indefensible from the Government side, is a Registry that has been "blessed" and agreed upon as being "accurate" for the purposes of PROSECUTIONS. You all know full well that ATF can't produce their own registry data for a huge number of actually lawfully registered guns NOW, guns where people have their registration documents but ATF doesn't. This is one of the main reasons why ATF got funds specifically in recent years for compliance audits of FFLs and SOTs. Even so, that has nothing to do with the hundreds of thousands of guns lawfully owned by non-licensees. ATF basically has no idea how far in error the NFRTR really is. It is well known, though not widely, that ATF has been forced to accept all manor of registration documents if recent years under the direct threat of having one of these gun cases actually go to court. Many people have really no idea how very, very fragile the whole NFRTR really is. One good case could throw into legal question the entire Registry, and smart people know this and act accordingly.....ATF included. This is why the whole ideal of a "new amnesty" is a really, really, terrible thing to promote. As it stands now, a person who is discovered to possess an "undocumented" NFA weapon or device (according to ATF records extant) stands a very good chance of avoiding the full measure of the statutory weight of prosecution, and possibly even stands to have the weapon (grudgingly) entered into the NFRTR, if one can document any number of a large selection of possible documentations that suffice to prove the GOVERNMENT, note I did NOT SAY ATF (or IRS ATTU), knew of the possession or gave "permission"(de facto or otherwise) for it's owner to possess. Though they might wish to, ATF cannot separate itself from other tentacles of the Government, many of which DID give such permissions in decades past. What makes a new amnesty so bad is that if ATF grants one, or goes along with another branch of Government doing so (possible), they will forever seal the deal on these old guns being rehabilitated into the Registry. Far, far more to lose by doing that than what we have today. Consider all the people who have, currently, guns registered lawfully on various Forms, but lets just say Forms 4 for this argument here. How do YOU know ATF has a CURRENT record of YOUR Form 4 registration?? Are you SURE?? You would think so generally speaking because YOU have a copy, but we all know there are literally tens of thousands of registrations where ATF hasn't not seen any transfer or inquiry action in decades......estimates run as high as 90,000 registered machine guns have not been transferred in over three decades and ATF has readily admitted that over ten thousand registered machine guns registered in the ORIGINAL Act of 1934 have NEVER been subsequently applied for a later transfer. What happened to ten thousand machine guns registered in 1934??? The answer of course is that they are still all out there, and they are turning up with more and more frequency every year as people's family discover these things and look to dispose of them. ATF has HUGE gaps in the NFRTR data of, especially, original or very early registrations. Yet, almost all of these ancient registrations have been successfully re administered into current form. People also do not forget that an "Amnesty" in the original sense was only meant to capture via registration, in particular, original factory produced machine guns, but certainly only those guns that were extant in November 1968. Even if there was another "amnesty" tomorrow, you can full well expect it to NEVER, EVER, EVER include machine guns that were illegally or illicitly manufactured, converted, or imported since 1968. The ONLY form a new Amnesty would EVER take is another attempt to gather registry data on guns that should have been picked up in November of 1968. IOW's....no chance of a new amnesty picking up any gun made, converted, or imported after 11/68. Also, to answer another question, Amnesty registrations were accepted, variously, as late as 1974 or 1975 depending upon the historical source you believe, for certain Registrants who could document successfully they were out of the Country in November 1968 for any one of a long laundry list of acceptable reasons. Military service, Foreign Service Personnel, or other good reasons were largely accepted. -TomH

You can do things to affect a return to semi-auto operation with the selector set in the "slow" setting in a M1918A2 trigger group: One, simply remove the actuator and its spring. Easily done by removing the stock and the actuator tube for gaining access. -or- Two, you can remove the sear stop lever from the trigger group. Either action has the same effect in that it prevents release of the sear automatically by the action of the rebounding actuator against the sear release. With either part removed you will need to manually release the trigger fully to reset its disconnect function for the next and subsequent shots. If the selector is set again at the "fast" setting the automatic function will be unaffected but at the "fast" rate. -TomH

QUOTE (keepshooting.com @ Mar 5 2007, 08:01 PM)Hey Guys, My only points will be the following--- 1) We have taken down the page for the new drums for now. After legal review this may change, or may not. 2) No reasonable person would ever mistake these as being THOMPSON brand products. 3) We get these sorts of letters from time to time. Nothing new. We tend to comply with reasonable requests and act in good faith. 4) Was shocked to find out that SAEILO ENTERPRISES / KAHR ARMS / AUTO-ORDNANCE is a Unification Church / Moonie / Sun Yung Moon Front Company. You can see this for yourself at this url: http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecente...es_us_front.htm Your throughts? 2) No reasonable person would ever mistake these as being THOMPSON brand products. ------------------------- They are not. You are reproducing a replica of a product manufactured by the Crosby Co. during the time they were contracted by the US Government to produce the drum magazine during a national emergency. Two salient points here: -the drum drawings were provided by the US government during WW II, who then supplied them to various contractors. There was NO remaining patent protections existing on the drum magazines at the time of the contract letting. Secondly, had the drum been under patent protections the name of "Crosby", or any other contractors name, would have had to have been supplemented by patent informations. -the drum design is long past ANY patent issues, period. There were NO continuations in part, or extensions of protections, filed on the L drum design, period. This is why the US Government could contract the drum mfgr out freely without any Rights issues or compensations to Auto-Ord at the time. -Moon has money, lots of money. Even so, you are astoundingly clear here with NO issues that are of a serious nature. This is a scare tactic ploy, he has no legal ground to stand on.

Don't know about the Tommygun plane......but just to show the idea really never died out completely, during The Great Patriotic War the Russians came up with, and actually fielded, the Tupolev Tu-2Sh which married an older small bomber airframe with **88** mounted PPSh-41 7.62mm SMG's on hanging racks in the bomb bay. This was meant to provide a carpet of fire over a scheduled area, which by all reports was devastatingly effective against open columns or trenches. [/url]http://www.ppsh41.com/88ppsh.jpg

No, Mike, you don't have a problem....you just have the beginnings of a problem! ;-) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/tactadv576/Collection/P2220065.jpg

Since posting this picture, I had a Finnish friend translate the text , as below: "The Thomson in the picture was discovered underwater at Ilomantsi province in lake Konnukkajärvi in Midsummer 1972 by Boarder Patrolman (sp?) Sergeant Major Keijo Luukkainen. The gun, manufactured by Auto Ordnance, has the receiver hit by a bullet that was probably shot by the Finnish forces during push over the lake from its narrowest point during the war. It was probably due to that reason that the weapon was dropped off. It is not known what happened to the gun's user. The user might have been a desant ( = Soviet spy/partisan) or he might have belonged to a close by 289 division or the NKVD troops that supported the 289 D. It is also possible that Soviet marines lost it. There were two kinds of ammunition found inside the magazine: from Peters and Western Cartridge Company. Same calibre cases have been found on other parts of Ilomantsi province as well." ...and his personal comments: "...Finnish Forces captured few Tommy guns from Soviet forces during WW2. I think most of them were captured from South-Eastern front lines. The one I fondled in Finnish museum back room few years ago belonged to Leningrad "back up" forces and had a bullet dent in the barrel's compensator, making me to believe the previous owner didnät surrender it voluntarily. I've seen also a picture of a captured Soviet POW just after they have surrendered their Thompson SMGs to Finnish soldiers. Soviets had/have nothing but bad things to say of the Thompsons. English version of the Soviet experiences/opinions can be found e.g. in Bolotin's "Soviet small Arms and Ammunition" book. Due to different caliber, the guns didn't see action on Finnish side. Some Finnish soldiers might have tried them out, but due to lack of ammo they were send back to army depos. Some might have been used in home land security duties as secondary weaponry like the Colt 1911A1 pistols due to limited avaialbility of ammunition in .45 ACP. Last summer I saw a picture taken during WW2 inside of a Finnish trench bunker (made of wood logs) belonging to a Finnish division commander. He had the Thompson SMG hanging on the wall. It seemed to be the 1928 model with cooling fins and front grip." -TomH

Wonder why he dropped it??? People lose their weapons all the time in the heat of battle, but this guy was probably glad to find another! http://www.joensuu.fi/mekri/sotahistoria/thompson.jpg

Yeah, here's one..........and yes it's from a REAL hunting game!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/tac...6/topviewM2.jpg

Jm, Nice Greaser! I have a Guide M3A1 myself, #6198XX, liberated by myself from the Indianapolis, Ind PD back a few years ago, new in the craft paper box, unfired. Not too many like that around, but yours looks pretty darn perfect! BTW, as to the other picture you posted of the Gemtech UMP can.....that is my mount on that can that I designed and patented when I was with them. I was with GT for many, many, years and that UMP mount was one of the last things I designed and patented there. I hope you are enjoying the unit! -TomH

There is no mystery as to a Dealer purchasing the gun on specific direction for an unnamed bidder, the eventual owner. Many high net worth individuals specifically refrain from directly identifying themselves with such "flamboyant" purchases in general, being an NFA item has no particular bearing on it really. Where I live here in the mtn foothills of Colo. I have done this many times for very well-healed and very quiet buyers. I have placed many extremely expensive C&R NFA guns into Aspen and surrounding areas, Breckenridge, Vail, and other close by Summit County locales. You'd be amazed at what elusive and remarkable NFA treasures abound in Ski Country. The other consideration, if the monetary value alone is not worth the effort is that many of these unnamed buyers have very public personnas around here, either as Entertainment or sports stars, or in associated businesses, or are very well known high end Industrial people. The key to smoothly interacting with these folks and gaining acccess to the financial windfalls of holding their business is to understand the subtle notion of being absolutely discreet at all times, and for all time. If one involved in such dealings were ever to neglect such a requirement, the door closes forvever. As a side benefit, it is an interesting and fun time to go casually shooting for fun with some very famous people whom you regularly watch on TV or movies or see in other public realms. There has also proven to be some very valuable personal connections made as a result. During past compliance checks, more than one examiner has raised their eyebrows when they see certain names in the A&D book!!! -TomH

Agian, posted without comment: http://www.subguns.com/classifieds/index.c...query=retrieval

Posted without comment, I mean what the Hell could you say after reading it?? http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2D0521FC

Dan says: "..... the countour of the barrel is different than pictured" Actually, the contour is the same, it is correct. What you are seeing and thinking different is the grip mount flanges for the vertical grip frame which go over the smooth BBL. Early High Standard factory-released images clearly show some UD's of both calibers were mgr'd with muzzle devices, though the plain BBL versions were undoubtably the norm, as no known (Marlin mfgr'd) UD-42 photgraphed in foreign or OSS service is pictured with anything but the plain BBL. The UD magazine (in 9mm) was a virtual clone of the TSMG, scaled down. It remains a disputable issue today, but has always been presumed the .45ACP UD's used common TSMG mags, as there was a precendent for that in the Marlin/Hyde M2, both guns facing the same inquiry Boards at the same time. -TomH