Drilling a new Ring sight for a cross pin, and providing the pin = $25 Threading the barrel muzzle for an original Compensator = $25 Please note, while I do no gunsmithing, I do offer some basic services, at additional cost, such as: Please inquire for pricing, materials, amount of customization keep me from having a set prices. They are robust, 1 inch thick, my idea is to make it unique to your wishes, with images, small screen TV's ( to replay your video from the range, break down for cleaning and re-assembly, or your favorite pre-recorded video ), lasering, still images, inlays, you tell me, customization is the concept. Please see the photos below, I have recently added firearm displays, the larger wooden ones are ideal for displaying at shows, as they are made to be broken down, and re-assembled for transportation.
MP40 Barrel- In original short barrel length, hot black oxided, with muzzle nut = $365 Both MP40 barrels and Trunnions are made to blueprint and original articles. I now manufacture the German MP40 SMG barrels in 9mm Parabellum/Luger, 1:10 RH twist, from chrome moly steel Rockwell 26-32. * these are new production press fit, and have no threads, this simplifies assembly in that vertical of the front sight is easily achieved.
While I do not manufacture Ring sights or Compensators, I do market them to help my customer one stop shop.ĪDD $25 FOR DRILLING FOR CROSS PIN AND PINĬOMPENSATOR ( Type 2 ) and PRESS FIT STYLE = $115 S&H NOT included, typically $20 for continental U.S., and while the DISPLAY and "NON-Barrels are exportable, the LIVE FIRE Barrels are not. The LIVE FIRE barrels are inspected from the vendor for chamber tolerance, and for thread fit, prior to my machining the pattern type.
From these barrel blanks, I turn the appropriate finned contour, 1921 with radius fins, 1928/A1 with square fins, or the basic M1/M1A1 non-finned barrel.Īll of my barrels for whatever purpose, are polished and powder blasted prior to delivery to a professional hot black oxide service. I purchase barrel blanks that are specifically made for the TSMG, chrome-moly steel, to a hardness of 26-32 Rockwell, 1:16 RH twist rifling, and chambered to G.I. I can provide a DISPLAY barrel either with receiver threads, for use with a quality reproduction steel receiver, or, non-threaded for use with the cast aluminum display receivers. My DISPLAY barrels are significantly less expensive than an original, particularly when you consider the cost of a tax stamp the issues of a background check to obtain an authentic barrel with a bore. Once finished with re-enacting, the gun can be restored to firing capacity by re-installing the long carbine barrel. Not only can a DISPLAY barrel be used to complete a parts kit, but, for the re-enactor who has a new production Auto Ordnance Thompson Carbine with the long barrel, by substituting a DISPLAY barrel, classed as a "NON-BARREL", the re-enactor can achieve the correct look of the SMG, without the SBR issue.
As these barrels have no bore, and are solid steel, they are classed as "NON-BARRELS" by BATFE, this is an important classification. 453" at the muzzle end, with the muzzle crowned. The DISPLAY barrels have no bore, nor chamber, and are blind drilled to. The DISPLAY barrels are manufactured from chrome moly steel, 4140, to a Rockwell of 26-32, as are LIVE/FIRE barrels which are MIL-SPEC steel. *Please note, any receivers pictured are non-functional, solid steel, or aluminum, I do not sell them. I manufacture, and sell, TSMG barrels for all purposes, DISPLAY, and LIVE/FIRE, in all Thompson SMG model types. Importation Laws, not only are receivers banned from import so too are barrels, so as time passes, original barrels will become increasingly scarce and valuable.
The Thompson served around the world with the Allies during the dark days of the early war period, all the way through to the Normandy Invasion and to the end of the war, even with its replacement, the M3 Grease Gun coming into service.ĭue to U.S. Too late to serve in WWI, for which it was designed, it became symbolic of Chicago's organized crime in the 1920's, the Public Enemies of the 1930's, and it took an under-prepared America to war in WWII. The TSMG, Thompson Sub-Machine Gun, was ahead of its time.