#Auto ordnance 1927 for sale serial numbers

There are many people far more knowledgeable about the ThompsonвЂ™s history and design than me. The Thompson submachine gun was used famously by gangsters, federal agents, police officers, and American serviceman it is a piece of American history, and you will find no shortage of reference material if youвЂ™re interested in this design. John Dillinger with his вЂњTommy Gun.вЂќ (Paul Scarlata collection) The 30-round stick mags came laterвЂ¦but I had Auto-Ordnance send me some of those too. It arrives in a hard case with foam cutouts and one 20-round stick mag and one 50-round drum, which were the magazine options available at the time when this gun was new. The version sent to me is the Auto-Ordnance 1927-A1 Deluxe Carbine which features a standard stock and a 16.5-inch barrel tipped with the Cutts compensator. Auto-Ordnance also offers short-barreled rifle (SBR) versions if youвЂ™re up for the additional paperwork. You can have your choice of the original steel receiver, a lighter version with an aluminum receiver, stockless pistol versions with a detachable stock, carbines with 16.5-inch barrels or a version with a 14.5-inch barrel with the Cutts compensator permanently attached to provide a total barrel length of 16 inches. They have several models of the simplified M1 (it and the even more bare bones version M1A1 were issued to our troops in World War II), as well as several models of their 1927-A1 Thompson, which more closely resembles the original models which went into production in 1921. Because of that weight, recoil is very minimal.ДЄuto-Ordnance offers numerous semi-auto carbine versions of the Thompson. The Thompson is a big, heavy gun, and about as iconic a firearm as there is. Currently, there is only one company making this firearm - Auto-Ordnance. 1 as owned/registered in 1968 by the Bob Steele Studios in Hollywood, CA, later sold in 1980 by Joe Miller (Miller's Guns of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania), and now from the Allan Cors collection.The Thompson submachine gun, the вЂњTommy Gun,вЂќ is the gun which is said to have made the вЂњRoaring 20sвЂќ roar, and its use in that decade by gangsters earned it the moniker вЂњChicago Typewriter.вЂќ So, it only makes sense in this issue to cover this iconic American firearm.

#Auto ordnance 1927 for sale serial numbers

This Thompson is listed by serial number in Herigstad's 'Colt Thompson Submachine Gun Serial Numbers and Histories,' Vol. It comes with one 20 round stick magazine. All other features of this rare carbine remain unchanged. Since these alterations were all performed by the factory on already brand new guns, they did not refinish them and instead just used touch up bluing to fill in the remarked areas.

The only other factory alteration was on the lower trigger housing where the word 'FULL' was also milled off and left blank. U.S.A.' The right side markings were unaltered, showing the five lines of patent dates along with the two line 'AUTO-ORDNANCE CORPORATION, NEW YORK U.S.A', and the top of the receiver is still marked with 'THOMPSON' inside their 'bullet' logo. 45 AUTOMATIC COLT CARTRIDGE/MANUFACTURED BY/COLT'S PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. The remaining receiver markings all remained as follows: 'CALIBRE. The left rear portion of the receiver was originally 'THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN' which has also ben milled off and restamped 'THOMPSON SEMI-AUTOMATIC CARBINE'. The markings were changed as following: the left side of the receiver was originally marked: 'MODEL OF 1921' which was milled off and restamped 'MODEL OF 1927', with the old serial number '4706' below the marking block. The standard receiver markings were milled out and remarked, and the internal components changed to semi-automatic fire only. There were two basic models: the 1927A model without the compensator and the 1927AC model (like this example) with the Cutts Compensator on the barrel. Although semi-automatic, they are still tracked/registered with their original (1921) serial number. There were actually less than 100-150 of the original semi-automatic models ever manufactured/converted by the factory and original unaltered examples are very rare. With all the interest in these weapons in the late 1920s, the Auto-Ordnance company decided to try and capitalize on their popularity by introducing a 'semi-automatic' version available for sale to the general public or police that only wanted a semi-automatic weapon. Originally these started out as a standard Colt Model 1921 fully automatic SMG firing the standard. This is a very rare variant of the highly desirable Colt Model 1927 (AC) Thompson that was factory (Auto-Ordnance) modified to 'Semi-Automatic' fire only.