Thompson Notes from 2007 ATF Q&A Session at Tracie's

[dalbert]

I was looking for something today, and happened to run across an old notebook from 2007.  It includes the notes I took during a Q&A session with Gary Schaible from ATF at Tracie's during the All Thompson Show and Shoot in August of that year.  I have been going from memory about this data, and now that I found my notes, there were some other interesting points.  I am posting them here for posterity.

Mr. Schaible indicated he had done a high level search for "Thompson" in the transferable ATF registry.  At that time, there were 186,000 transferable MG's in the registry.  I believe that number has now decreased to 170,000.  Here are some key takeaways:

• 11,300 entries were returned that included "Thompson"
• He said there were some other Thompsons in the registry that might not return data in a "Thompson" query
• He said 11,300 was a conservative number of total TSMGs in the registry
• There were 25 different TSMG models returned in his data query, including the erroneous "Model of 1912."

Hope this helps!

David Albert
dalbert@sturmgewehr.com

[LDog2012]

Excellent. Thanks for posting.

[jjvpo8]

Great information.  The approx. 16,000 attrition rate is surprising to me.

[signal_4]

That number might be going up in the near future 

 

 

Edited February 7 by signal_4

[Lewisfan]

My Savage 1928a1 has "28 A1" listed for the Model.

"Thompson" is not listed anywhere on the form.  I'm a little surprised that he got that many matches by using "Thompson" (?).

Edited February 7 by Lewisfan

[maxfaxdude]

On 2/7/2025 at 5:28 AM, jjvpo8 said:

Great information.  The approx. 16,000 attrition rate is surprising to me.

I'm not.  Lost, stolen, confiscated, accidentally destroyed, exported out of the country, etc.  Time takes its toll...