St. Louis Police Department to Sell 27 Tommy Guns

gunsamerica.com ^ | 6/1/2017 | Jordan Michaels

[rktman]

The St. Louis Police Department has decided to sell 27 of its historic and valuable Thompson submachine guns in an effort to raise the funds necessary to purchase new duty firearms for its officers, according to a report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Kentucky-based Midwest Distributors has agreed to pay $22,000 for each of the iconic rifles, but they will likely sell the old police arsenal to private parties for much, much more.

[rktman]

So, unless you're independently wealthy, I'd suggest setting up a "gofundme" account to raise the bucks that'll be needed to buy these heavy weights. And they cost how much brand new at the local hardware store back in the day?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Automatic?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Good condition, transferable Thompsons fetch at least $40,000 each.

[Red Badger]

for each of the iconic rifles

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[Red Badger]

FULLY............................

[AppyPappy]

Yep. You’ll need a permit to own one

[VietVet876]

Should be donated to the few remaining white block watch captains in Ferguson.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Magazines the drum type?

[V_TWIN]

Ever see the movie “Road to Perdition”? If not I recommend it. Not only a good flick IMO, but shows off the Thompson pretty well I thought.

[PIF]

I don’t think Thompson’s were available in any hardware store ever. Likely they were stolen from some National Guard or Army armory.

[xone]

I don’t think Thompson’s were available in any hardware store ever

You got them direct.

http://www.thompsonsmg.com/autoordnance_corporation.htm

[Lurkinanloomin]

No, before the 1934 NFA you could buy them in your local hardware store.

[xone]

Likely they were stolen from some National Guard or Army armory.

Big PDs with big crime bought these to compete with the criminals of the era.

[rktman]

Ace is the place for the helpful “hardware” man. Heheheheh!

[T-Bird45]

FR is a full-service forum — less than 4 minutes from posting an assertion to being proven wrong. Probably not a record but still within FR quality standards.

The requisite Wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun

[skimbell]

[\/\/ayne]

You can get a chrome replica for only $3,000 at Auto Ordnance.

[wastoute]

My info is closer to $27,000, if that. No “meat on the bones here” is what I am hearing.

[wastoute]

20 years ago I saw an historical add offer them in the mail for like $200 cash, IIRC.

[wastoute]

So my memory is not as bad as I feared.