[timydnuc]

Just purchased an original 1942 Thompson 45 cal. sub-machine gun, and boy, is it fun. It took some time to learn to shoot it but after the training period I love it. It's heavy, but that helps on the recoil, and it'll shake your teeth loose, but once you get used to it it's a beaut.

My Dad carried one in WW2. I carried an M14 in Viet Nam. That's my next acquisition, if I can find one.

[Rennes Templar]

Is that the one called the “Tommy gun”?

[MarkL]

I carried an M14 in Viet Nam. That's my next acquisition, if I can find one.

I've got a Federal Ordinance M-14S (semi-auto), and I just love it. It's a beater, but it shoots really well. It's got a fiberglass stock, with a big, fat rubber recoil pad on it from the factory - Not the GI steel butt-plate. Shooting it is like a really big, really LOUD .22!

Mark