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STOCK MONEY. GOLD FUNDS AND SILVER INCREASE OVER PAST YEAR.OR SOLD A MUSCLE CAR.i know four personally in town one i have sold well over 75 guns to. WHO CAN COME up with a million bucks cash! if they had to.And one did over $600,00 profit in market over last 12 months.. If somebody really wants it they find ways to buy it. FRED who is now deceased was a rolex, gold and diamond guy... when he got into Thompsons in the super late 80s. and Tom Clinton FROM THE 70S OWNED A ELECTRONIC COMPANY IN TAIWAN. if he wanted it he bought it. nothing new at all. SADLY 95%OF THE GUYS I DID BIZZ WITH HAVE PASSED. we might have a new breed of buyers who knows. And these guys for that price bought a KEEPER for awhile...I would spend $75,000 on a Colt Monitor. BUT WHEN OFFERED ONE FOR WELL OVER $100,000 no thanks.I am sure the new owners will be happy and proud...I have had them all over the past 55 years. WELL TIME TO RELAX

NICE PACKAGE AND DECENT RESTORE JOB. THAT SERIAL WOULD SELL IT FOR ME, UNIQUE.AND THE BOOKS HARDCASE, NOT MANY OUT THERE, AND OF COURSE OAK PARK.good luck on the sale.RON K.

That is one of the better cased sets I HAVE SEEN OFFERED AND SELL IN AWHILE.And i should know i had well over a 100 of them.as far as parts kits only ever had 6 total original. looks correct by what i can see, those who have owned more then 6 can chime in with the knowledge on them. seems after Gordones arrived.everybody became a expert. yet when i had one in 1975 they thought it was a fish hook box and line weights for fishing. times change.we have seen a lot over the past 50 plus years.And more guns will be offered. with all the extra items that have been put away for decades.nice gun nice story...RON K.

a made up gallery gun for pictures.or homemade zip guns.it could be anything. since the pic barely shows anything. like showa piece of wood officer. is it 1928 is it mia1 or is it made current today.or maybe kahr made sawmill scraps.barrel looks like 9mm to 45acpcocking handle looks dished some carbine added grip thing front end.maybe they bought them from CURTIS EARL, MAYBE STILL IN THE INVENTORY.LOOKS WOOD WITH METAL TYPE GRIP. and if thats a mag in one pic could be a 30 rd type. or could be marx toy for pictures.also is picture 50's era or 60s. they don't look like reisings. but as i said a bad pic for the guns to begin with

We had 2 tables easy to spot in sar building EASY TO SPOT WITH LARRYS SIGN it said liberal free zone would not let me post pic. are we using mini pictures now?

RON GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE ABOARD HERE.Have a handkerchief from Gordon also. that he gave to me well over 30 years ago.WELCOME TO THOMPSON MADNESS.

Yeah Bob i updated my post yesterday morn. if you read it, and said still for sale with a email from seller.I will get the numbers of those kits when he arrives at SAR show since his tables are right next to mine. So i guess Thompson world is saved once again...

As i see no update. but that sale ended it may be true they had 15 left and he bought them all.since after that date don't see them for sale.THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD A 100 OR SO LEFT and selling till all gone. Well maybe with his purchase they did. if so. I guess price can rise.Since if that source is now sold out. who will they buy from? the cleaning rods.still there. so guess more then 15 to go around.thanks for the ad info.update today monday got email from seller seems like they still have them to sell.so guess they will have them forever. in tommy world it never ends.RON K.

WELL MY BUDDY IN TOWN SAYS he just bought 15 kits and 15 cleaning rods and might have cleaned them all out. and says will bring to SAR show to see how they sell. If that is truth and that is the last of them all. I suppose price will go up someday. I sold the first few that Gordon had for me, years ago. but still have #292....R.K.

UNLESS EVERYTHING WAS UPDATED FOR 2025.when i was helping Gordon with the book with Chicago guns, rail road guns Cook county, Will county. and a bunch of other spots i went to Earls, Rogers, IRV, Harris,Cummings, AND MANY POLICE DEPTS. and other collectors in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin, pre 1980 there was not some ton of guys doing Thompsons. as today some say oh thousands b.s. a couple dozen. many started up after the 90s, only issue i had i could not buy more Thompsons, i was out buying hundreds of other guns and collecting and buying other mg's at the same time...so had no time to do some running list. i was not doing some book. I was buying, selling, making contacts, and having fun. > in 1980 had my own company catalog. "ARM LTD" with not a Thompson to be seen. All modern mgs and semi stuff. Roger did not start his Book until 10 years after i went to see him and did business with him. Tracie did a great job on his first book. and in 1982 rogers is all anybody had. AND THE 1968 EARL CATALOG, AND THE M.G.M. STUFF.I GOT TO HANDLE THAT STUFF including the goofy MP40 FOR T.V.S. COMBAT. And did buy a m.g.m. Thompson. Gordon passed away by time i had the chance. to give him another list of 40 colts i had.> yep times marches on...A few OF US ARE STILL AROUND....that remember and did the early deals. nobody cares anymore. Only in the minds of the ones that did the hard work. yep i miss it.Glad we still have some books and pics to look at.

i CAN'T IMAGINE IF IN 1971 TILL AT LEAST 1980 THIS BOARD WAS AROUND AND I WAS POSTING ON IT WITH ALL THE STUFF.EVEN MY 1975/76 ADS FROM SHOTGUN NEWS. Yikes would i hear the tales and you can't do that is that gun real and a Colt's not worth $2,500 but i only had Earl and a few other guys to deal with.wow it was simpler times....

That is a very nice cut gun. and i am sure the internal parts are just as nice. if pivot plate has been removed they knew how to do it w/o messing it up and the frame area. MANY A NICE COLT looks like crap in that area due to stupidity and a screwdriver or knife tool. good luck for the future..RON K.

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Simple its a form 10 post sample gun if reassembled and welded back and that is always what it will be. and nothing more or less forget the license forms and ffl sot dd. bomb license. and old time registered on books. you have a box of parts that once was a functioning gun. thousands of that is out there. So sell it and buy a gun that's around. or box frame it and put on wall with pics of {Chip}Saunders. YOU ARE LIKE A HUNDRED OTHER GUYS WITH THEM OUT THERE. BUY A REAL DEAL. and you have a nice replace parts sets. as they all brag about. but most don't really break. {ask me how i know}since i retired from it in 2012 after 38 plus years as a ffl/sot. so my standing is diminished in the tommy boy club. Because i am not a current player. but yeah i have forgotten a few things about 1% over the past gun history. And most i did bizz with from 1971 on, are LONG gone.so take it for what that's worth. and for the pics you have shown very little, but it was a nice gun. good luck on the hunt for a complete shooting registered legit one. however blunt. I HAVE BEEN. enjoy the sport. RON K.

UNLESS MILLIONS OF BUCKS IS INVOLVED IT ALL MEANS NOTHING. putting some barrels together refinishing and whatever. and making blank guns which he said that is all over now.{ he said last one sold.} why worry about a letter from them.. Just go on to whatever you are doing. its not like a factory, and a line of employers building guns, drums and parts. if it ever was you would already have a attorney on retainer or working for you. so carry on Bob, life's too short to sweat over that. RON K.

4 cans 48 hours. not over the counter quick but quack quack.no complaints...

Let me know what you want for the Colt Monitor? not for me i moved all my stuff already.. but for a buddy who i already found a nice cased Thompson for.At least before he gets too old also to quit buying. thanks Ron nice conversation, you have my info. be well. Ron

Eff jan one no tax and all paperwork is needed no rush for anyone the tax never stopped anyone it was the darn paperwork...And everybody knows that.IT was all signed, now years of b.s. lawsuits till 2028 and starts all over again. now most dealers are saying pay tax buy now and get refund some put on layaway wait till jan and some oh they will sell fast you will wait a year...Since 1934 the b.s. clown show is still on..and will always continue.MUSK will be on Mars.till the next go around..that you can bet on and.enjoy 2025,

SEND IT TO ME my b.i.l. did 30 years there. and retired. he can put it with his model 870 shotgun with the same stamped buttstock.don't waste it because they will only toss it in trash RON k.

Hope he made it home, and lived a long good life.

I had 2 both sold along with a rare Cook County 2 gun hardcase. and sold #6349 my Illinois state police CASED Thompson{VERY FEW AROUND IN PRIVATE HANDS} Yes the decades on these items has flown by, and at this stage nothing is coming out of Chicago P.D.AND ALL THE COLT ITEMS HAVE BEEN STRIPPED out of those guns that remain and all colt drums are long long gone. they all have ww2 era drums as of this date. I still have all the color photos in file. was a good time for me in life chasing it all down....sadly my ST VALS gun i sold to a friend who passed and now has been resold. have all the info but was never contacted by the buyer for the colt letter. and all other paperwork. his loss. anyhow good luck with the sale not many out there anymore. RON K.

That is a great pic and story...AND A GOOD MEMORY of your dad for sure...

Back around 1990 i got a 27 semi made to fire full auto reg and all that, From REED KNIGHT. first Numrich i ever had conversion..TOOK ON TRADE,Had correct short barrel comp. and also 21 slide stock lower, not the m1a1 think they sold.shot it once worked okay but numrich drum jammed. was going to keep instead of shooting Colts i had. But just was not looking the look so sold it to some guy in wi. who owned a range. and rented guns. told him good luck with it. later he said he ran well over 5,000 rounds thru it no issues. I FIGURED GREAT I AM NOT GETTING IT BACK... THAT FIRING PIN DEAL IS A WASTE. I have been thru enough guns to know.

AND WHEN ALL THIS STUFF MIGHT CHANGE IF IT EVER DOES THE SELLER MIGHT BE GONE THE NEW OWNER OLD, and if to be resold who knows what nightmare may await.ON ALL DEALS LIKE THIS ONE. I GUESS I HANDLED MYSELF IN THE 38 PLUS YEARS OF DEALING AS A FFL/SOT FAIRLY WELL, DID NOT HAVE ANY OF THIS CRAP TO DEAL WITH. If not for F&F, and the gov chasing me with stupid issues. it would have been great. And when you don't have to deal with any of it anymore. yeah the Freedom really sets in.

inertord is correct, right there. {thanks}I would have seen it if i bothered to blow up pic. and had a few like that well over 25 years ago. grab the refund, you don't need any further check out and delay, pretty simple.