Posted on 06/17/2016 6:25:09 AM PDT by rktman
No one uses Tommy guns anymore. Today's thugs sling lead at one another with their plastic wonder-guns across playgrounds and parks, with poor accuracy and less style. Desperados, the demented, and the depraved appear to have settled on the ubiquitous black rifle as their favorite fashion firearm. Even Chicago, America's Free Fire Zone, hasn't seen anyone mowed down with the fabled Chicago Typewriter in decades.
It is a puzzlement.
After all, the Tommy is an all-American weapon, an iconic symbol of American independence and ingenuity. General Thompson intended it to sweep trenches clear of enemy soldiers, but the Germans, rather inconsiderately, threw in the towel before development work was complete. Yet the general persevered, in due course bringing forth the Thompson Model 1919: genuine American walnut and intricately tooled, highly polished steel. Able to carry up to 100 rounds of .45 ammunition and spit them out at the rate of 600 per minute (1,200 in early models).
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LOL! Good one. I’ll have to remember that. Thanks.
Loved that show.
Vic Morrow ate lunch in our mess hall in Quang Tri.
Enjoyed talking with him.
Hated it when was killed by that idiot director whatever
his name was.
AR-15 is the Colt registered trademark for the ubiquitous civilian version of the military M-16 rifle. The key difference is the civilian version fires only semiautomatic.
That was in Twilight Zone, the movie, I think. Something about a helicopter....IIRC
Just damn.....
On that same subject you might find this article interesting.
AR-15 Speaks!
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/ar15_speaks.html
Thompson are "spray and pray" unless you are Chesty Puller.
Where was this photo taken and what is the story behind it?
Vietnam. The rulers of the newly Unified Republic Of Vietnam no longer required the services of the Thompsons and other former US military equipment held in the warehouses of the former South Vietnamese Army, since plenty of their own standardized AK47s were had for their purposes. They also scrapped out some of their own damaged or worn equipment at the same junkyard.
Really tommy,
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