Your tank lost the machine gun?, no prob, lets put a thommy
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Today, you can still buy a Thompson just like that without the stock, and its called the Thompson pistol. I think you can even get a drum for it, however the new ones are strictly semi auto. I think the Dev’s should give this to the allies to use in our pistol loadout. 
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I don’t even play allies and I’m for this idea…
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thats a fair point
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It would be crazy going to a shooting range and everyone says “oh I got a 1911” or “I got a Glock” or some other popular pistol (hopefully not a SIG). And then of course the cool guys with the deagles.
And then you pull out the Thompson pistol. To be fair, I would actually rock one.
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I had to order my Thompson M1 from a place called Sportsman Warehouse and wait a couple weeks. When it came in, it was the wrong Thompson, this was the 1927 Tommy gun. It was cool and I thought about just keeping it, but I wanted the M1. I paid around $1,200 for the Thompson M1 and I think the Tommy was the same. I don’t remember the cost of the Thompson pistol. My 1911’s I think were about $680 each, so not bad priced IMOP. A real Thompson would have set me back a hell of a lot further financially. I never got to fire it, I have torn tendons in my left shoulder which actually made it hard just to hold the gun up, balance it to shoot. I was supposed to get a shoulder replacement, but never did. No pain, just can’t lift things up past a certain point, and being retired early don’t need to. Below is the model Thompson that was incorrect, and the store hung onto it and it was sold by the time I came back to pick up my M1 about a week later. The manager said the 1927 had tons of viewers and sold in a couple days. If I was not married and had a money tree outside my house, the 1927 would have been mine as well. Just imagine showing up at a gun range with the Tommy gun. 
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I can’t tell what would’ve cost more - the firearm itself, or the license to own one. I’m hoping to buy a firearm in the next few years, but I have no idea really what I want to buy.
Most likely scenario is I’ll buy something like a Marlin 336, but $2,300 is not something I am looking forward to spending. I could otherwise buy a shotgun, possibly a Templeton T2000, since they’re straight pulls and the closest most can get to a pump action (and cheaper too, around $1,350).
If I was in America, I would’ve gone with a Mossberg / Remington or AK derivative in a heartbeat. Probably both, since they’re cheaper than what they are here.
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I bought the Thompson in I believe November 2017 and the 1911’s December of 2018, so the price has probably gone up, but I am sure it is probably cheaper here then in Australia. My son also has a Ruger 10/22 which he bought the kit and it basically looks like an American MP4 now. He loves it, and it was cheaper then buying an AR15. When I was AR shopping back in 2017 I think the bare bones AR-15 I could get was around $500-550, and you could go up over 2k if you had money. I bought a small Ruger 9mm for my wife since she was a small Filipina women with small hands, but they have an extension on the magazine so it actually didn’t fit my hand bad. My oldest son ended up with it as well. He made out good when I moved, he got several thousand bucks worth of guns for free.
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That’s the worst part I feel about our gun laws. Not the fact that most can’t own semi autos and use them for self defence, but family can’t pass down guns to other members (even with licenses). In the 90s there was a massive crackdown on weapons (they have since lightened up slightly) and many WWII weapons were seized.
My mum was licensed and she could’ve gotten her grandfather’s Lee Enfield from WWII, but someone let it slip that she had it, and the Police said we had no option but to decommission it (aka pour concrete down the barrel and throw it into a river). It’s sad seeing that a now 80-year-old or more weapon is just rotting and decomposing in some river when it could’ve been sold to someone who would enjoy it (or be kept for the family).
Same goes for my Pop on my father’s side. He used to own a shotgun (not sure if it was a double barrel, over under or pump since I never saw it), but since he sold the farm, I’m pretty sure he sold it since no one was licensed (and again, we can’t pass guns down through the family for some reason).
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All the guns I gave him are still registered to me, but we can pass them onto family, and he has passed his FBI background check and has a permit to carry. Gun laws are much looser in the US, but I always slept well knowing I had a loaded 1911 by my bed. I also had the 9mm loaded by my bedside as well, not the wifes.
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