Tommy guns for Police gear?

[dude young]

I found two boxes of .308 ammo in the rafters in my new house that were sitting there since 1992. Just as cool a find, right?

I'd trade anything for a Chicago Typewriter. Bad azz is putting it gently.

 

[teflon6string]

The slower the better for me.

A shooting buddy has a silenced greasegun that cycles at about half the speed of the 1150 rpm MAC 10. I can carefully tickle 2-round blips out of the greasegun on auto, or dump a full mag in a moment. Deeeluxe.

Similarly, a Thompson SMG properly tuned to fire 600 rpm is elegant. I want one.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

During the 1967 Albina Race Riots there were LEOs on the roof of Lloyd Center. They were spaced about 20' apart and there were a LOT of Thompsons! We saw them at twilite silhouetted against the sky. Really memorable!

 

[Kevinkris]

really cool that they went out to the public rather than destruction.

 

[oli700]

If someone offered you a free Bushmaster AR-15 or an original FA Thompson with a 50 rd drum, which one would you pick?

depend on my current arsenal, As it stands I would take the Chicago Typewriter

 

[teflon6string]

If someone offered you a free Bushmaster AR-15 or an original FA Thompson with a 50 rd drum, which one would you pick?

It's a no-brainer, the simple, gorgeous, iconic Thompson!

At the peak of the evil black rifle scarcity and mercenary price-jacking last year, most us had potential access an AR any day. Even had a line on a couple M-16s had I been willing to cough up new-truck money (which I wasn't).

Anyone who can make the same claim about the Tommy gun travels in different circles than I do.

 

[erudne]

Way,,Way back in Da day long before the 1968 GCA I was with a friend just outside Lone Pine CA at a spot where autos went to die, just a pile of old cars, abandoned.
from the mists of times past a 1928 appeared and chattered a long and noisy song. Glass, chrome, metal, horse hair stuffing filled the air. Hoods and trunks popped open as if summoned by a Smokey elixir. Old, old cars crumbled under the fusillade of hard ball SMG ammo, the late 40's sedans took their hits, then stoically faded away giving ground to a new age and a new man.
At the end there was a Cadillac, a behemoth of 1956 Detroit steel.
45 ACP ripped across it's bumper, 80 pounds of spring steel.
The bullets hit, bounced back, striking the gunner.
True story

 

[Ligito]

Don't misunderstand my post tacticalgunner, as I agree 1 thousand percent with you....

I'm just thinking out loud as to why they went this route, essentially going backwards weapons-wise when all the other agencies are bringing in MRAPS, drones and 50 cal. sniper rifles? For this reason I question why they would do such a thing.....what's next, issuing their officers deuce and a quarters and M1's because they got a great deal?

"what's next, issuing their officers deuce and a quarters"

Deuce and a half.