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RE: $100 parts and ATF monitoring There was a guy on Glocktalk recently that ordered a threaded walther .22 cal barrel from some guy in Germany. He got a visit on the ATF but apparently it was just a slap on the wrist type visit. http://www.glocktalk.com/showthread.php?s=...threadid=318422

Hello all, Thanks for all the responses and help. I think I'm going to keep the .22 in new condition and not shoot it. I just have to wait for the paperwork to go through. It will be tough having a MG and not shooting it so I'm going to try to get a .45 for shooting. Hopefully I can get one of those soon before they get even more expensive.

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Hello, I appreciate your help. I looked up WH Thompson's to try to figure out how much a auto .22 is worth and saw a variety for sale, but only one full auto .22 which is being sold as part of a $25,000 collection: http://www.arms-ordnance.com/inv/Thompson~5.html I figure that the auto .45 from this collection would go for $10,000 or so, and the three semis would be worth $4,000 or so based on the prices I saw at GunsAmerica and those kinds of sites. That means the accessories and auto .22 would have to cover the remaining $11,000 and I really didn't think they were worth that much. I was wondering about a few other things too. From an investment point of view, what's the deal with guns that are really old and have all original parts and matching serial numbers and all that stuff? What I mean is let's say I get the auto .22 and decide to have a gunsmith tune it up, shoot the hell out of it, and so on. Will that be like buying a new car and having it lose a lot of value the second you drive off the dealer's lot, or do machine guns hold their value even if you can no longer claim new and unfired with original parts etc? I'm guessing that Thompsons and M16s and those types of guns wouldn't lose as much value from shooting because they are relatively common (at least as far the military is concerned), but really rare and exotic MGs would. I would like to get some MGs for investments, but I can't imagine having an MG and not shooting it because it would lose value. I guess the best thing to do would be to get two guns, one to shoot and one to keep in mint condition, but that would take some serious $$$.

Hello, I am new to this site and machine guns. I found out I might end up inheriting a Thompson SMG. It is a .22 caliber automatic west hurley that was purchased up in the early 80s from what I know. I was wondering what one of these would go for on the market assuming it is new and unfired with no rust eating the finish away in the original packaging with all the paperwork and that sort of stuff. Are they 'common' as far as automatic thompsons go or are they really rare? Would they be worth around the same as the equivalent .45 caliber model or does it only being a .22 bring down the value? Also, I was wondering if the .22 is the 'same gun' as the .45 but except with a different barrel and magazine. Are the other parts like the receiver the same? Could I convert the .22 to a .45? If so, would it be relatively easy or would it cost a lot of money and have to be done by a gunsmith? I'm not sure what I want to do with the gun. Thank you