Tommy Gun---

big tee · Dec 4, 2020

A sale bill popped up on my computer with a lot of guns--Don't know if it is "right" to show pics. of guns on here but I always thought this was the ultimate cool gun! It is up to $2550 but you get 2 30 rd clips plus a 50 rd drum. Is it legal to own a fully automatic weapon???? It is on Market Alliance.---Elliot Ness

kurt v · Dec 4, 2020

Yes you can own full auto just need to do the fed paper work, I have owned about a dozen, that gun is semi auto. That gun in class 3 you would need to add another zero.

big tee · Dec 4, 2020

Is it a remake, or is it the real thing?

UncleTom · Dec 4, 2020

It could be semi auto only.

Michael Soldan · Dec 4, 2020

It is a Thompson machine gun , known as a Tommy gun in the 1920's underworld.

jimg.allentown · Dec 4, 2020

Oh.look! A Chicago typewriter!

Billy Shafer · Dec 4, 2020

Yes it is legal. After you pass a background check. Fill out all the paper work. One of my customers was a gun smith. He showed me the rules at the time. Then your name goes on an owners list. The ammo is not cheap.

4520BW · Dec 4, 2020

You forgot to say after the paper work you have to wait and wait... took me 14 months to get my "stamp" but that was when the other guy was in office so my be faster now.

Oregon Tractor Jack · Dec 4, 2020

If that was Class III it would be worth $40k or so. I know someone who owns one. His wife made him sell a bunch of his other cool toys so he could buy one. I think he got his for around $30k but that was 10 years ago.

OTJ

GordoSD · Dec 4, 2020

Remake by Auto Ordnance. Retails for about $1250 Semi auto.

1948CaseVAI · Dec 4, 2020

Professor of criminal justice at the state college here owned an original fully auto one several years ago. That was before ammo was hard to come by and he had a decent range in his basement where we used to go drink beer and shoot it. Hard to hold it down.

SDE · Dec 4, 2020

Legal, Yes, but you need a pocket full of cash to own it legally. Literally in the thousands for permits.

Tony in SD · Dec 4, 2020

From the picture it’s hard to tell but it looks to be an original. However at that price it has to be a semi auto which is legal in most states.

old · Dec 4, 2020

I could have gotten one of those back when I was in the Navy. Would have cost me $100 but the thing was no questions as to what it may have been used for

Billy Shafer · Dec 4, 2020

Of course you have to wait. You are dealing with the Govt. They NEVER get in a hurry. Unless you owe them money. Then they are at your door.

Donald Lehman · Dec 4, 2020

It is most likely the semi-auto version. If it was the full-auto version, as mentioned below, the price would be much, much higher. Unless things have changed, Fully auto weapons are not transferrable under the current regulations? Even between those who have the NFA licenses? It's been a while since I was in the business. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

caterpillar guy · Dec 4, 2020

They were in 45 ACP so why would ammunition be so hard or expensive for it? 45ACP is a fairly common cartridge and an old military cartridge so will be around for a long time. Prices are high now for any ammunition. The 9mm is nonexisitant for cult availability right now I hear.

Donald Lehman · Dec 4, 2020

Yeah. .45 ACP is no more expensive or harder to come by than any other ammo right now. Both gun sales and ammo sales are through the roof the last year or so and the manufacturers are finding it difficult to keep up. That is not going to change anytime soon.

Tony in SD · Dec 4, 2020

NFA firearms and a few other things are transferable but you have to go though a class III FFL and do the paper work to get your tax stamp.

JF in MI · Dec 4, 2020

Not the real thing. Barrel too long (16" to make a legal rifle).

muleboss · Dec 4, 2020

(quoted from post at 11:42:41 12/04/20) I could have gotten one of those back when I was in the Navy. Would have cost me $100 but the thing was no questions as to what it may have been used for

What does what it was used for have to do with it??

John in Mich · Dec 4, 2020

About 10 years ago, a friend invited me to go to a private club outdoor range with him. He owned (legally) a Thompson and was selling it. He said a special Federal permit was required.
As stated, 45 ACP. I fired 50 rounds in three short bursts. WOW! Somewhere I have a video of me firing it.
The weapon was a cherry (he is/was a collector of fine weapons) and he sold it for upwards of $20,000. If that is an original Thompson, I suspect the selling price will go much higher.

Gambles · Dec 4, 2020

About 10 years ago, the local police department was cleaning out the basement and they found one of them. It was actually featured in the local newspaper, complete with photos. The article said it was given to the police force from the U.S. Government during the prohibition era to fight crime. The police force was wondering what to do with it and simply decided to put it back into storage. A few years later, the next chief of police was voted in they searched for the tommy gun, but it had somehow disappeared.

Hockeygoon · Dec 4, 2020

Per round a 45 isn't that expensive - but when you are shooting 1200 rounds per minute... That's around $700 a minute. I don't know about you but that is a little bit of scratch.

Briar Hill Brittanys · Dec 4, 2020

Local guy, has quite the website:

https://gunspot.com/store/midwest-tactical/

2x4 · Dec 5, 2020

Tried to get friends to buy them off of me when I had a gun shop. $750 new 20 years ago. They were afraid of them. Good investment.

Pete-IN · Dec 5, 2020

This is probably a semi automatic. I bought one new about 3 years ago. No more paperwork than buying a shotgun. As others have stated below, if it was full automatic, price would be many times higher. Any gun shop can order the semi automatic version and have it in a couple weeks. I really don't shoot mine much. Just good for bragging rights.

bc · Dec 5, 2020

I remember back in the late 50's when the Untouchables came out and I was a little kid. Watched all the gangsters drive by in the old black cars blasting away with their tommy guns. Scared me so bad that for a long time when walking down the street at night and a car was coming, I would run over and hide behind a parked car so they couldn't shoot me.

Now the Untouchables is on local tv on Sunday afternoons for 6 or 7 hours. Gotta love that Walter Winchell narration which makes it so believable along with Robert Stack as Ness.

Too bad I couldn't go back to northeast Wichita at night now and walk down the same street or I really would be shot.

Bret4207 · Dec 5, 2020

I'm not even going to comment on what was in the attic of our local Legion Post back in the '70's. Let's just say I wouldn't have wanted to get those old boys mad at me...

SVcummins · Dec 6, 2020

Remember when barney read the entire town of Mayberry his malfeasance speech about Andy not having any machine guns in the sheriffs office?

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