Re: ...agreed to sell a Thompson submachine gun, known as a Tommy gun...
Always buy, but never... ever sell!
Could be worse.
In the early 90s DC tried it’s first gun “buy back” program. The city was offering complete amnesty and $100 or so for every gun turned in.
One of the local stations showed up a precinct station to interview the people in line “selling” their guns to the city. They interviewed this elderly woman who was turning in her “Pappy’s gun” which he’d had during Prohibition and had passed along to her. It’d been in a case under her bed for DECADES.
She opened up the case and inside there was a MINT CONDITION Thompson, with three drum magazines. Which she was turning in for ~$100. To be melted down.
I literally screamed at the TV.
Have you practiced what you preach???