US GI full autos.

[theholeinthedonut]

I will dump all my SMGs, LMGs and HMGs in this thread. They are all fully functional, but I am NOT allowed to shoot them! In my neck of the wood you are allowed to own full auto guns, but only on a collectors permit, shooting them is a big no go.

Let's get started with an M1 Thompson.

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[browningautorifle]

Nice M1... I had an M1 (not M1A1) many years ago...removable firing pin and all...

[theholeinthedonut]

This one is an M1 that was changed into an M1A1.





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Saginaw Steering Gear M1919A4

[browningautorifle]

Nice, looks like the 1919 sat out for a while...

[jonnyc]

So you can own the car, but you can't drive it?
You can cook the food, but you can't eat it?
I think Spain and Argentina have similar laws. Painful.

[browningautorifle]

I think Spain and Argentina have similar laws.

We have similar laws too...on our FA and converted auto.

[theholeinthedonut]

So you can own the car, but you can't drive it?
You can cook the food, but you can't eat it?
I think Spain and Argentina have similar laws. Painful.

Maybe so, but everything in life is about compromises....
In the US I could not have afforded even 5 % of my collection.

The 1919A4 had set me back 3000$, tripod included. My M1A1 800$...and so on.

[Lee Enfield]

One friend of mine had all 4 of the main variants at one point.

He never let me shoot his 1921A with the "C" drum because someone had dropped it at a previous shoot and it was expensive to remove the dent.

..but....a 1921A with an "L" drum puts a big smile on your face... ;-)


If you are able to find a 1921 or 1928 lower, you can adapt your M1 for drums (I don't remember if you have to notch the front of the mag well or not?).

[theholeinthedonut]

My BAR 1918 A2, made by New England Small Arms Corporation.

[browningautorifle]

If you are able to find a 1921 or 1928 lower, you can adapt your M1 for drums

Not quite, you find a repro drum and have the spine from a box mag spotted to the back. Then it just slides up in place. No need to refit uppers and lowers...

My BAR 1918 A2

I had three of those through time, a Royal Typewriter 1918A2, then a Marlin Rockwell 1918 with the walnut stock and no over strikes, finally a NESA like yours...forget where my number fell in relation to yours...