"Now I'm gonna give you to the count of 10... to getcher' ugly, yellow, low-down, fly-eaten keester off my property, before I pump you full of lead! 1, 2, 10!" *bratatatatatatatatatatatatatata* "Keep the change ya' filthy animal!"
We had these in the U.S. Navy in the armory aboard my ship when I got there in the 70s. They were soon replaced with M-14s. The thing about Thompsons is that they were made in an era when gunsmithing was still an art…..meaning that as each gun was first assembled a master gunsmith would hand finish each part for a perfect fit to *that* gun. Basically, parts aren’t really fully interchangeable, although it might look like they are. If you had ten Thompsons in the armory, and broke them down together, and then reassembled them without regard for matching each part to the gun it came from, you could have ten guns that don’t work anymore. This gun is a work of art. It’s like the early Ferraris…..they were really hand made.
@@marmadukewinterbotham2599 Only the upper and lower receivers are serialized and hand fitted. The rest of the parts are pretty much interchangeable. The guy discussing the shipboard Thompson was probably unaware that they had been fired hundreds of times over the decades and that the parts had worn in together.
@@grievetan The mp40 and ppsh were both wartime designs that used simple construction techniques and were created with practicality and sensibility in mind. The Thompson was a massive, heavy piece of masterfully crafted artistic beauty that fired a large, overpowered cardridge and functioned reliably despite being based around of a principle of physics that would later be proven entirely false. While the argument could be made that the ppsh or mp40 are better guns, they will never be as cool.
@@bangscutter actually there was several incidents where they did fire from the hip. Doing so allowed them to fire quicker at their targets because they would hide the guns inside their trench coats, accuracy wasn’t really the issue either since they preferred to wait til they were very close to the target.
fun fact!: earlier versions are prototypes of the Thompson smg had a fire rate similar to the MG42! This fire rate was only reduced because the army wanted a controllable smg with some spray potential
To add to this: The reason the gun had such a high fire rate initially is because it was made for the Trenches of World War 1, where the controllability of the gun wasn't as critical since it was expected to be used in such close range. Also fun fact: It's because of this fire rate that it's original name was the "Annihilator 1". However after World War 1 the marketing team at Auto-Ordinance had some understandable issues with the name as so they changed it to "Thompson Submachine Gun", the first ever gun to be called a submachine gun and thus essentially founding the entire class of weapons.
@j gunther Yeah, I recently learned about Bauhaus and I'm convinced it's the worst art movement in history. It's responsible for the modern world being so ugly.
@@jgunther3398 exactly what I say all the time. In this day and age, the purpose of a product is the only concern of a manufacturer, as far as design goes they pick the simplest, blandest looks just to get it over with. Up until the 50s this wasn't the case at all, a lot of thought was put into both the design and its functionality, everything was so stylish and it was expected to be so. Accessories, appliances, clothing items, tools, etc. Nowadays companies take the easy way because we let them.
I shot a WW2 GI Thompson a few years ago, that thing was a dream to shoot, super flat shooting and steady because of its 13lb weight. I was quite surprised by my grouping after putting a full stick mag on target at 25 yards, they're beamers for sure. A little rough on the ergonomics as far as grip comfort and selector/safety controls go but in all I was quite pleased with it for a nearly 100 year old submachinegun design.
actually seems kinda slower than expected in semi auto, looks like it just fired 3 rounds edit: Im saying that when he fired one semi auto round it kinda slow make it looks like he fired 3 rounds with full auto
@@cobgod1415 nah, before firing full auto he had to use the fire selector so it was semi auto, I mean based on the speed it looks like that was full auto three rounds but actually 1 round semi auto, not sure if you mean he fired 3 rounds with semi auto
@@anhtunguyen781 He literally means he pulled the trigger 3 times slowly because thats what happened I don't see where you see the problem , semi auto =1 bullet per trigger pull 3 slow pulls = 3 slow shots
My dad was a cop and i used to go to the range to watch them qualify back in the 1960's. They qualified with their S&W K38, .12 ga. Riot gun and the M 28 Thompson. It was always fun. By the 70' s they went to the M16.
Ah yes, the perfect weapon for when you need to go onto an uncharted island, kill some dinosaur and giant bugs and rescue a damsel from the giant monkey
I was with the Seabees in Vietnam... we had several around because they used the same ammo as our Colt Model 1911A1s and were easy to keep at your side in vehicles, just in case.
Fun fact about the Tommy Gun: at the outbreak of the irish civil war the Free State Army was one of the first armies in the world to adopt Thompson's into their arsenal
I love how every person shooting this gun started trying to be straight faced and badass and ended the mag with a big ass grin on their face. 😂 Can’t be unhappy shooting a Chicago typewriter.
I had one of those when I was about 13. Around 1966. It was a GI Joe Tommy Gun with a green camoflage paint job. Inside the long magazine, it had a liitle round cylinder with about 5 spikes around it and it spooled the tractor-fed caps through it, and the hammer smashed the cap in between the spikes. The caps were ridiculously expensive in 1962. About $1.50 for 500 caps. There were 10 rolls of 50 caps per roll. That thing gobbled caps just like the real one gobbled bullets. It took about 15 seconds to go thru a roll of 50 caps. And if we cheaped out and got the Japanese caps, about a third of them were duds. I loved that gun. It made a lot of noise with the caps. And tons of smoke. I loved the smell of the smoke and Ican stillrember the smell. Even without the caps, it still made enuf noise to play cops & robbers. It was great but if you give one to your kid these days, they will probably get shot by some stupid paranoid pigs or get harassed by a flock of Karens. I would live to have one of them there real ones like in the video. But at $30,000 and up, it may be a while yet.
I haven’t shot a full auto version, but with the help of the compensator my semi auto Thompson is comparable in recoil to a 410 gauge shotgun if even that. In comparison to the 300 Winchester I hunt with, this thing feels like a pea shooter!
Such an iconic looking weapon. Ixwas not born in a country with a gun culture, i was born in 1950s London but remember i had a plastic to my gun and it had a handle on the tright side and when you wound it, it sounded like a tommy gun. It never made me a violent person,i was brought up on war m9vies and westerns
Yea Bruce it’s mine too I’ve owned 2 1928’s that’s all I would buy. I like the finned barrel cutts compensator and the ability to use drums. I would buy a Colt if I could afford one but there 50K now. Prob is I’d be afraid to shoot it because If you blow it up and damage the original parts the gun gets devaluated. My WW2 Bridgeport 1928 is a happy medium. It’s worth a lot of money but you can still shoot it. And parts are easier to find than Colt parts.
Better weapons become available, for example the HK G3 and FN FAL can both do everything the BAR can, but they're less than half the weight. The Tommy gun is heavy, and expensive to manufacture, and the M16 and especially M4 make it an unnecessary weapon.
Actually was issued one back in the day. Loved it, wish I still had it! Got replaced by a M3. Long time ago... When firing, the thing would just "float" -- not rise up. Beautiful weapon!
@@charleslarson6961 voting for Rs won't fix this country, especially not after what the D's pulled back in 2020. fact of the matter is there is no political solution anymore
In the movies, they of course depict the "endless magazine" with like 150 shots in it. The reality is that the bursts lasted for only a short time and, while powerful, weren't as 'great' as the movies depict. That thing is bulky, too.
My wife’s grandfather was trained on one of these in the army and later the Korean War. He said the military didn’t use the drum magazines because they were prone to malfunctions, especially under combat conditions. He said if you dropped a drum and dented it, you could count on a stoppage. That’s why GIs always carried the stick magazines.
@@MDR-hn2yz The sticks didn't rattle, were easier to reload, and were easier to change. The M1 and M1A1 couldn't take the drums anyway - the required receiver grooves weren't cut in them.
Drums also weren't used because of the bulk. You could easily carry eight 20-round magazines versus two 60-round drums. When you're wearing a full kit, it's hard to figure out where to store the extra drums.
It gets 0 pionts, because it is already an NFA firearm. Not a pistol, going up against an BullSht test to see if it will be over 4 points, and to become a NFA firearm. Also, also SMG's, SAW's, Carbine's & SBR's, are all NFA items already, soooooo...........0 points, because they won the NFA test, long before it even took place!
Owned a thompson sub back in the late 1970's. It came with its original wooden crate, a standard magazine and a 100 round drum. It appeared to be an unused surplus military weapon. I paid a whopping 300 dollars for this thompson. Took it out in the woods a few times and had a lot fun going full auto with it. Over time i got really nervous about owning a machine gun without the proper A.T.F paperwork and decided to get rid of it. I sold it for 500 dollars and thought at the time that i had done really well because i had made a 200 dollar profit on this old thompson. It makes me sick today to think that i sold an all original thompson submachine gun in like new condition with its original crate and mags for 500 dollars. I imagine a thompson such as that one today would be worth 40 or 50 thousand dollars. If i only knew back then what i know now!!
40 or 50 thousand dollars? No. Just no. They're only worth that much if they're legally registered. Nobody is going to pay anything close to that for something they gave to keep hidden. And FWIW, I recently saw a registered Thompson for $38k
We had several of those on the USN submarine I served on in the early 70's, sometimes we would practice shooting them using floating metal milk cartons as targets, out in the middle of the ocean, it was called the M1 Submachine Gun 45 ACP
the m1 is a different variant than the one shown here, with a different charging handle, lower rof, and a few simplifications such as dropping the ability to use drum mags entirely. it came into being over a decade later for use in WW2, before eventually being mostly replaced by the significantly cheaper m3 "grease gun".
@@legoshi6769 to be honest when I first heard about this gun a few years ago I really thought it is assault rifle because it’s big and heavy for an smg size
A crazy thing about this variant of the Thompson is that it had a higher fire rate than the standard issued from WWII, but it also had less recoil, but it was unfortunately far heavier
I shot the M1A1 full auto and tbh I didn't like it. Muzzle jumped way too easy. The Israeli Uzi and the Mp5 were FAR superior. I wish they would have had the 1928 Thompson. I would have loved to try it.
I just want to add that there’s a lot of good control in this video from what I can see! I’m no expert, but it looks like you all handled this full auto beast in a really stable manner, and with a lot of hits on target!
I use to do work for this businessman years ago who had a lot of money, and he also owned two U.S. Military Thompsons with stick magazines, these were very rugged, and heavy weapons 😳. These are definitely very reliable and beautiful weapons. I just watched this video 4 time's in a row, fantastic, thank you for sharing. 😁👍🏻
Those who have seen Home Alone say, “Keep the change, ya filthy animal!” I however, with a wild-ass imagination at a young age thought it was, “Now beat it, ya filthy animal!”
@@yourtrappedinmygenjutsu So...in the movie Home Alone, the kid plays a TV to scare off bandits. The TV scene is a man saying the above line and spraying a Thompson at villains. The bandits, only hearing the TV think that they're actually being shot at. Both this video and the Home Alone TV guy have this Thompson model, hence the comment.
They're still in use in Vietnam in 1968 they didn't have the range of an M16 but in a firefight they were a hell of a lot more devastating and a lot handier the dragging around the M60 where you needed someone to help you hump your ammo
If I recall, they fired a 45acp rd,no range at all,they were sweppers,having wired in a real gun shop and having restored some of these,alot of cast parts,rough cast parts,took alot of machine work too make one look good like customer wanted,bad ass looking,no effect at further ranges,still cool!!!
@@anthonyfoutch3152 They can than Robert McNamara for that eff up. He and his "whiz kids" bean counters stuck their hands in the fielded version and eliminated things to cut costs. The cuts made it an unreliable POS when first introduced.
I'm convinced that being able to purchase several manniquins and to be able to take your SERIOUS frustrations out on them via one of these ^^^ is even MORE therapeutic. But I'm probably going to bring more attention to myself from "professionals" from posting such a comment....But I'll take that risk😂😂😂
I recall an account from a Thompson-carrying Marine that took part in several island invasions in WW2...he said that he would load with a drum mag for initially hitting the beach, but once it was expended he would discard the drum and use his stick mags from then on.
I wanted to be him. But I was so disappointed to find out he didn't even like guns. His Tommy was a wooden prop, except for when he shot it. Too heavy.
@@d.mangham5204 I haven't read anything about his BAR, but I would imagine so, being so heavy & carrying it around when filming days were sometimes what, 10, 14 hours.I do know that Vic & Rick Jason didn't have to ask for a raise together. If one got a raise, the other did also, because the producers knew the other would demand it. IIRC, they were getting $10,000 per episode toward the end. Shocking that Jason killed himself after a final reunion of the guys from the show.
Is scene that actually from a movie? Or was it just made for the home alone movie? If it’s an actual movie, what’s the name of it? I know that I used to know the answer to this question.. but my memory has its gaps at times..
The rate of fire on that thing is incredible, especially for its age. It’s an all American sub that should’ve keep evolving. Imagine what it would be today if they didn’t stop making them.
As someone else wrote in this comment section "fun fact!: earlier versions are prototypes of the Thompson smg had a fire rate similar to the MG42! This fire rate was only reduced because the army wanted a controllable smg with some spray potential"
It was stupidly heavy, twice the weight of a modern AR carbine It was also expensive to make, costing as much as several rifles or seven Colt 1911 pistols.
I'm a police officer and my dept. still has a couple of them in the armory. They've long been retired , but they are kept in good working order though they will never be fielded again. They bring them out on occasion and fire them for demo purposes every few years.
@Gen-Z Independent You can buy one but it's gonna be freakin expensive. The only full autos you can buy are ones made prior to 1986. They're usually $10,000 minimum plus the $200 NFA tax stamp for a full auto weapon PLUS another $200 tax stamp because it's a short barreled rifle cause the barrel is less than 16 inches. Wanna put a sound suppressor on it? That's another $200. Why $200? Because that was the purchase price of a Thompson sub-gun in 1934 when the National Firearms Act went into effect. Prior to that you could buy one at a hardware store as easily as you can buy a drill or a chainsaw now.
You know I got 1 just a kittle while ago , unfortunately its not exactly like the 1 in this video it doesn’t have those (ribs cuts?) on the barrel , i think thats what they’re called , and the grip is normal not a foregrip like this 1 . And sure its got some weight to it . I hekd it for a good 10 minutes just to see if it gets tiring , but I didn’t find it overwhelming , but at the same time i have forgotten a bit how much an M-16 weighs compared to it , is it heavier than an M-16 ? I should call my friend nearby he has 1 we’ll compare both , that seems fun
This is one of those guns that has a unique distinct sound. You know it's a Thompson. This Gorgeous SMG had the potential to be transformed into a tactical version.
I carried an MP5 for many years. I love my modified Thompson 1928 model. I never used one in the field, but mine would do as well as my MP5 except for weight. It is a heavy gun.
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The "Chicago Typewriter" went into production 100 years ago this year. It's still a helluva beautiful piece of engineering and personal weapon.
Technically the "annihilator" prototype of the tommy gun was in 1919
@@spankmedaddytrump5612 😊👍
@Keiran Barron 👌
@@invincibincing 👌
Yes
In my opinion still one of the best looking guns ever made.
I so agree, if I was going to punch out of this world against a overwhelming enemy I'd like to firing one of these.
YES. YES YES
The Chicago Typewriter
class
Right along with the MG42!!! Sexxxxxxay!!!!!
*"Back me up, Vito."*
You shoot like my sister
“Whatda ya scared asshole!?”
What are you scared asshole? 😂
@@Wuzi_cooks They teach you that in the army?
"Going in!"
“Alright, I believe you. BUT MY TOMMY-GUN DON’T!”
Smosh
"Get down on ya knees and tell me ya love me"
Johnny your the only duck in my pond
I love that movie and quote
"Now I'm gonna give you to the count of 10... to getcher' ugly, yellow, low-down, fly-eaten keester off my property, before I pump you full of lead! 1, 2, 10!" *bratatatatatatatatatatatatatata* "Keep the change ya' filthy animal!"
This is one of those guns that should’ve never stop production
I think that they are in production and you can get a thompson 1911 to match it
Yeah in texas for the least $47,000 lol unless I’m thinking of a different gun 🤔 this is the classic al Capone Chicago typewriter right?
@@QuanyBx5 yep, that's the one. It has the ribs on the barrel and the pistol style forestock.
@@jnywd8450 Are the original company still making them or are they a really well made and expensive reproduction.
@@iandixon7641I'm not sure Ian. I saw an ad in the American Rifleman
The good ol' Chicago Typewriter. Love It!
Stranger..... stranger.... now that's a weapon.
Now it's the Glock w/ a switch. Some things never change.
@@amauryrakestraw1335 is that all stranger?
Boy, the Chicago typewriter still has that kick-ass groove to it.
Thought it was the ‘Chicago piano’?
Now ya just need to fire it down an alley out of the window of a ‘34 Buick.
@@timonsolus That was the guns on the USS Enterprise in WWII.
Edit: Early WWII US Naval anti aircraft guns.
@@djayk9692 The don sends his regards.
Thought it was Chicago cash register.
We had these in the U.S. Navy in the armory aboard my ship when I got there in the 70s. They were soon replaced with M-14s. The thing about Thompsons is that they were made in an era when gunsmithing was still an art…..meaning that as each gun was first assembled a master gunsmith would hand finish each part for a perfect fit to *that* gun. Basically, parts aren’t really fully interchangeable, although it might look like they are. If you had ten Thompsons in the armory, and broke them down together, and then reassembled them without regard for matching each part to the gun it came from, you could have ten guns that don’t work anymore. This gun is a work of art. It’s like the early Ferraris…..they were really hand made.
No jams,no misfires!
Yes, they look well crafted. Did each gun's parts have the same serial number? It's been decades since we were allowed to own these here in the UK. 😢
@@marmadukewinterbotham2599
Only the upper and lower receivers are serialized and hand fitted. The rest of the parts are pretty much interchangeable.
The guy discussing the shipboard Thompson was probably unaware that they had been fired hundreds of times over the decades and that the parts had worn in together.
Whilst the Kalashnikov is universally part swappable.
EACH gun Hand fitted... Like the German LUGER 😊👍
One of the most badass guns ever made
MP-40 and PPSH may have a word with you
@@grievetan ever heard of John Dillinger? No gun is more gangster.
Never heard of a M249?
@@tylernelson152 talkin bout gangster ever heard of AK-47?
@@grievetan
The mp40 and ppsh were both wartime designs that used simple construction techniques and were created with practicality and sensibility in mind. The Thompson was a massive, heavy piece of masterfully crafted artistic beauty that fired a large, overpowered cardridge and functioned reliably despite being based around of a principle of physics that would later be proven entirely false. While the argument could be made that the ppsh or mp40 are better guns, they will never be as cool.
I'm so used to people holding these at their waists that it feels weird seeing someone look down the sight
I thought the same thing.....looked odd
I thought that too wondering why no one was hip firing
Makes you wonder if gangsters actually shot from the hips in real life or that method is just Hollywood movie's way to make it look cool.
@@bangscutter actually there was several incidents where they did fire from the hip. Doing so allowed them to fire quicker at their targets because they would hide the guns inside their trench coats, accuracy wasn’t really the issue either since they preferred to wait til they were very close to the target.
@@wackyweyland8857:
The dude at 03:01 did.
I don't imagine you could hit shit that way without a lot of practice, though.
fun fact!: earlier versions are prototypes of the Thompson smg had a fire rate similar to the MG42! This fire rate was only reduced because the army wanted a controllable smg with some spray potential
To add to this: The reason the gun had such a high fire rate initially is because it was made for the Trenches of World War 1, where the controllability of the gun wasn't as critical since it was expected to be used in such close range.
Also fun fact: It's because of this fire rate that it's original name was the "Annihilator 1". However after World War 1 the marketing team at Auto-Ordinance had some understandable issues with the name as so they changed it to "Thompson Submachine Gun", the first ever gun to be called a submachine gun and thus essentially founding the entire class of weapons.
@@TheRedKing247 thanks for the clarification i always forget the specifics of it.
@@m1ndfr34k3 no problem man, I do too sometimes.
@@TheRedKing247 Sad MP18 Noises
In the 60s series Combat Sarge carried a Thompson it was so heavy they made a wooden replica for him to carry.
“Keep the change ya filthy animal”
Best line in any film.
1:58 the gun is so powerful that it almost transcended reality itself
it glitched the matrix
@@meliagardenchannel792 I'm assuming that is directed at yourself and you're just letting me know.
@@meliagardenchannel792 your mum
@@vectorsahel5420 and your mom
@@meliagardenchannel792 r/wooosh
0:56 This is just insane. Makes you think how scary it must have been to be on the receiving end of this during the mobster days...
“Rattle ‘em, boys!”
-a skeleton
It's like a video game
This wasn't used in the mobster days, it's something that Hollywood invented hahahaha
@@martinnieva8484 The st. Valentine’s Day massacre: ._.
@@mylastaccountgotdeletedtha6936 sorry, my bad, I meant the chicago typewriter with DRUM mag
Even the guns were art deco design back in the day. Beautiful
the most beautiful design era. i hope we leave this era soon where functionality alone is king
@j gunther Yeah, I recently learned about Bauhaus and I'm convinced it's the worst art movement in history. It's responsible for the modern world being so ugly.
It's arguable that some German (and American, for that matter) WWII tanks had a touch of art deco charm.
@@altratronicreally? Any examples?
@@jgunther3398 exactly what I say all the time. In this day and age, the purpose of a product is the only concern of a manufacturer, as far as design goes they pick the simplest, blandest looks just to get it over with. Up until the 50s this wasn't the case at all, a lot of thought was put into both the design and its functionality, everything was so stylish and it was expected to be so. Accessories, appliances, clothing items, tools, etc. Nowadays companies take the easy way because we let them.
what an absolutely beautiful piece of history
And expensive as fuck too what a beast of firearm
It’s iconic whenever u c one u can’t help but think of the saint Valentine’s Day massacre and hoods lined up against the wall
💯💯💯
My father used one during his time in WW2. He always told me it was his favorite. I bet, were he alive today, he would enjoy this greatly.
That’s really cool, great to hear
Yes
What? He used the 28 version...?
@@gagida1829 As he is not alive to ask specifics for you, I cannot say.
Great to hear
Gangster moment
That's how Mafia Works!
“Ayo boss, some car dealer ain’t keeping his mouth shut, I think we gotta make tommy do the work.”
3rd
Hey aleks imagine if that thing was ur airsoft gun lol
Marko perković moment
I shot a WW2 GI Thompson a few years ago, that thing was a dream to shoot, super flat shooting and steady because of its 13lb weight. I was quite surprised by my grouping after putting a full stick mag on target at 25 yards, they're beamers for sure. A little rough on the ergonomics as far as grip comfort and selector/safety controls go but in all I was quite pleased with it for a nearly 100 year old submachinegun design.
Funny as to how only white people could invent this ..huh ???😮6😢😅😅
That is so crazy how fast that guns spits out a 20 round clip and even the 50 drum 🔥🔥🔥nuts!!
It's a magazine, not a "clip"
@@shanedavey4093 magazine clip aperatice that holds ammunition
@@shanedavey4093 "clip" is a street term because it's a lot shorter to say than "magazine"...but who gives a shit anyway.
@@navagatingthroughthebeasts2908 😂
You think that’s fast? Check out a MAC-11
This gun is a legend
This gun is iconic
Both in the criminal world and the age of war.
No
I love this American tommy gun (Thompson)!
This gun is older than this whole generation
Everyone’s little grin after each magazine is infectious
Ikr
@Holy cringe when people say cringe
My grandpa once told me that back in his day you could purchase a Thompson at the drug store...wow what a time to be alive!
The Legendary Chicago Typewriter. You are one lucky man.
@@KESTRAL23 yes, yes you are. But that's for another time
It’s weird seeing a Thomson smg fire in semi auto since in media they portray it as a full auto a-10 wharthog that the mafia used in the 1930s
i agree
actually seems kinda slower than expected in semi auto, looks like it just fired 3 rounds
edit: Im saying that when he fired one semi auto round it kinda slow make it looks like he fired 3 rounds with full auto
@@anhtunguyen781 that's probably because he fired 3 rounds slowly
@@cobgod1415 nah, before firing full auto he had to use the fire selector so it was semi auto, I mean based on the speed it looks like that was full auto three rounds but actually 1 round semi auto, not sure if you mean he fired 3 rounds with semi auto
@@anhtunguyen781 He literally means he pulled the trigger 3 times slowly because thats what happened I don't see where you see the problem , semi auto =1 bullet per trigger pull 3 slow pulls = 3 slow shots
My dad was a cop and i used to go to the range to watch them qualify back in the 1960's. They qualified with their S&W K38, .12 ga. Riot gun and the M 28 Thompson. It was always fun. By the 70' s they went to the M16.
This isnt a gun, it's a work of art 👌
The fact most of us can never get one is a crime.
The sound of it in full auto is beautiful
The sound of it in full auto is beautiful
The sound of it in full auto is beautiful
The sound of it in full auto is beautiful
The sound of it in full auto is beautiful
Im ruining the streak
Ah yes, the perfect weapon for when you need to go onto an uncharted island, kill some dinosaur and giant bugs and rescue a damsel from the giant monkey
Or if you're some dude named Johnny and you need to kill another guy named Snakes
it was an ape ... not monkey
"Two magazines on backup"
@@davidjones-vx9ju Is there a difference?????
@@pebo8306 if you don't know ,then i can't explain it
I was with the Seabees in Vietnam... we had several around because they used the same ammo as our Colt Model 1911A1s and were easy to keep at your side in vehicles, just in case.
Welcome home! And, thanks for serving!
@@travist7777 🙄
did you use/keep them on full auto? They seem more accurate without..
Mis respetos hacia usted y le deseo lo mejor
@@travist7777 you’re about 48 years late
Fun fact about the Tommy Gun: at the outbreak of the irish civil war the Free State Army was one of the first armies in the world to adopt Thompson's into their arsenal
God, I just love the sound of the Thomson, definitely wish I had one.
I love how every person shooting this gun started trying to be straight faced and badass and ended the mag with a big ass grin on their face. 😂 Can’t be unhappy shooting a Chicago typewriter.
Chicago Typewriter....... Top nickname!!!
Hahaha spot on
Unless you’re the one being typewritten
@@tonyharrisson6823I get the Naming because it kinda sounds like a typewriter writing as extreme speeds
@@log7029 😂
That’s a whole lot of freedom going downrange.
STFU
@@ricochetonthepanzer3395 STFU
STFU you Commie liberals
Freedom,Liberty or Democracy..they may sound same but actually they aren't.
@@mr_lonelyboy2001 Communism and liberalism may sound the same, but actually they aren't.....
0:58
“No boss, I just need more ti-“
I had one of those when I was about 13. Around 1966.
It was a GI Joe Tommy Gun with a green camoflage paint job. Inside the long magazine, it had a liitle round cylinder with about 5 spikes around it and it spooled the tractor-fed caps through it, and the hammer smashed the cap in between the spikes.
The caps were ridiculously expensive in 1962. About $1.50 for 500 caps. There were 10 rolls of 50 caps per roll.
That thing gobbled caps just like the real one gobbled bullets. It took about 15 seconds to go thru a roll of 50 caps.
And if we cheaped out and got the Japanese caps, about a third of them were duds.
I loved that gun. It made a lot of noise with the caps. And tons of smoke. I loved the smell of the smoke and Ican stillrember the smell.
Even without the caps, it still made enuf noise to play cops & robbers.
It was great but if you give one to your kid these days, they will probably get shot by some stupid paranoid pigs or get harassed by a flock of Karens.
I would live to have one of them there real ones like in the video.
But at $30,000 and up, it may be a while yet.
Nice to be able to go plinkin’ , right out your own backyard, beautiful.
I'm sure your local undertaker agrees 100%!
Amazing graphics and sound design. Can’t wait for this to release.
it's impecable sound design.
1:07 damn he control the recoil like a god
Hacks for sure 😅
Yes
What recoil?
@@angelic_disappointment7889 i only know about recoil is to make a gun hard to control
I haven’t shot a full auto version, but with the help of the compensator my semi auto Thompson is comparable in recoil to a 410 gauge shotgun if even that.
In comparison to the 300 Winchester I hunt with, this thing feels like a pea shooter!
Such an iconic looking weapon.
Ixwas not born in a country with a gun culture, i was born in 1950s London but remember i had a plastic to my gun and it had a handle on the tright side and when you wound it, it sounded like a tommy gun.
It never made me a violent person,i was brought up on war m9vies and westerns
My favorite version of the Thompson M1928 A.K.A the Tommy Gun!
Yea Bruce it’s mine too I’ve owned 2 1928’s that’s all I would buy. I like the finned barrel cutts compensator and the ability to use drums. I would buy a Colt if I could afford one but there 50K now. Prob is I’d be afraid to shoot it because If you blow it up and damage the original parts the gun gets devaluated. My WW2 Bridgeport 1928 is a happy medium. It’s worth a lot of money but you can still shoot it. And parts are easier to find than Colt parts.
The Tommy Gun and the BAR are two weapons they should never have stopped making.
beautiful guns
Better weapons become available, for example the HK G3 and FN FAL can both do everything the BAR can, but they're less than half the weight. The Tommy gun is heavy, and expensive to manufacture, and the M16 and especially M4 make it an unnecessary weapon.
@@thitsugaya1224 the FN FAL is terrible, call of duty said so
Actually was issued one back in the day. Loved it, wish I still had it! Got replaced by a M3.
Long time ago...
When firing, the thing would just "float" -- not rise up. Beautiful weapon!
No offense but dude how old are you?
@@phinehasjacob9122 I'm over 70, figure I only have 30-40 years left to keep voting Republican.
@@charleslarson6961 voting for Rs won't fix this country, especially not after what the D's pulled back in 2020. fact of the matter is there is no political solution anymore
@Charles Larson you are awesome. I wish I was issued the Thompson or the m3
@@Poffean he's over 70 what the fuck do you want him to do fight 20 year old liberals? Get your ass off the internet and do something instead
Me when I see a vampire in a cafe in the usa:
Ah yes, the comment i was looking for
is that jojo reference ? 😂
In the movies, they of course depict the "endless magazine" with like 150 shots in it. The reality is that the bursts lasted for only a short time and, while powerful, weren't as 'great' as the movies depict. That thing is bulky, too.
My wife’s grandfather was trained on one of these in the army and later the Korean War. He said the military didn’t use the drum magazines because they were prone to malfunctions, especially under combat conditions. He said if you dropped a drum and dented it, you could count on a stoppage. That’s why GIs always carried the stick magazines.
@@MDR-hn2yz The sticks didn't rattle, were easier to reload, and were easier to change. The M1 and M1A1 couldn't take the drums anyway - the required receiver grooves weren't cut in them.
Drums also weren't used because of the bulk. You could easily carry eight 20-round magazines versus two 60-round drums. When you're wearing a full kit, it's hard to figure out where to store the extra drums.
@@MDR-hn2yz Funny, they seemed to work fine here, tell your gramps to stop telling tall tales.
It's just beautiful and iconic. That's why it's so loved.
What a beautiful piece of history. Wonder how many points it scores on the ATF bingo sheet.
all the points, even the 0's LOL
It gets 0 pionts, because it is already an NFA firearm.
Not a pistol, going up against an BullSht test to see if it will be over 4 points, and to become a NFA firearm.
Also, also SMG's, SAW's, Carbine's & SBR's, are all NFA items already, soooooo...........0 points, because they won the NFA test, long before it even took place!
The forward pistol drip 💧
The government would rather melt these than five them to Americans
All of them lol
Bird’s are chirping, sun is shining, Tommy is blasting. What can be more nice.
1:20, 1:55 legend has it that he always forgot to pull the bolt
What a lucky man to own, (I’m assuming he owns it ) such a well made and historic firearm.
Owned a thompson sub back in the late 1970's. It came with its original wooden crate, a standard magazine and a 100 round drum. It appeared to be an unused surplus military weapon. I paid a whopping 300 dollars for this thompson. Took it out in the woods a few times and had a lot fun going full auto with it. Over time i got really nervous about owning a machine gun without the proper A.T.F paperwork and decided to get rid of it. I sold it for 500 dollars and thought at the time that i had done really well because i had made a 200 dollar profit on this old thompson. It makes me sick today to think that i sold an all original thompson submachine gun in like new condition with its original crate and mags for 500 dollars. I imagine a thompson such as that one today would be worth 40 or 50 thousand dollars. If i only knew back then what i know now!!
Any unregistered machine gun after the 1968 Amnesty is worth 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. I'm happy for you that you didn't get caught.
I think I would have just hidden that weapon in the attic
Broooo no you didn’t 😭
@@clay1883 Uh that's why you have the Thompson in the first place
40 or 50 thousand dollars?
No. Just no.
They're only worth that much if they're legally registered. Nobody is going to pay anything close to that for something they gave to keep hidden.
And FWIW, I recently saw a registered Thompson for $38k
The best home defense against a street gang Especially from a 2nd or 3rd floor window!
THERE ARE NO MORE VIDEOS OF THE THOMPSON OF THIS 1928 MODEL, I LOVE IT
My Father was an instructor for the Thompson and the Colt .45 during WWII. He called the Thompson "The Room Broom!"
Hahahah , is it because it sweeps the room clean from people ?
A broom for sweeping trenches...
Yes.@@wendzeg
That was the nickname during WWI. Updated for WWII.@@michaelwhalen2442
I've always thought the Thompson in any form is just absolutely a beautiful gun.
I couldn't agree more
We had several of those on the USN submarine I served on in the early 70's, sometimes we would practice shooting them using floating metal milk cartons as targets, out in the middle of the ocean, it was called the M1 Submachine Gun 45 ACP
So _that’s_ why they call it a sub machine gun!
the m1 is a different variant than the one shown here, with a different charging handle, lower rof, and a few simplifications such as dropping the ability to use drum mags entirely. it came into being over a decade later for use in WW2, before eventually being mostly replaced by the significantly cheaper m3 "grease gun".
Best deer gun i ever had.Local 5-0,busted me so last i saw of this gun it was in the sheriff's office Display case Top shelf.
i love that everyone has a ear to ear grin after shooting this. beautiful.
Underrated comment
0:58 when the dead start moving
The way the target rang was majestic
Me in WAW.
Al Capone, anastasia, bonano, luciano, bonnie and clyde, the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, and colombo families
*LIKE THIS*
Bonnie and Clyde never used the Thompson. Shotguns handguns and BAR’s.
@@craigthescott5074 I clicked to say the same.
John Dillinger.
"Play us a symphony!" Rocky Rickaby, 1927. Love this gun and it being synonymous with gangsters during the prohibition era
The most legendary SMG ever created.
With a drum mag. That would be even more beautiful.
Im having Mafia 2 vibes
1:00 drum mag tim
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
It's arguably an assault rifle
@@magentuspriest No!
@@legoshi6769 to be honest when I first heard about this gun a few years ago I really thought it is assault rifle because it’s big and heavy for an smg size
A crazy thing about this variant of the Thompson is that it had a higher fire rate than the standard issued from WWII, but it also had less recoil, but it was unfortunately far heavier
Yeah with a 20 round mag such a high firerate is more of downside than anything
I shot the M1A1 full auto and tbh I didn't like it. Muzzle jumped way too easy. The Israeli Uzi and the Mp5 were FAR superior. I wish they would have had the 1928 Thompson. I would have loved to try it.
@@smokingcrab2290 you shot a tank?
@@davidjones-vx9ju No he shot a helmet. Or a carbine. Or a bazooka. Or a scout car. Or a shovel
Sir I'm gonna need to barrow your mystery box for a year 😂
Lol i thought it was a wall weapon like from waw...
@@isaiahwalking that's the regular wall 20 round Thompson lol m1928 in bo2 mob of the dead is a beast.
@@Alphagaming55-s2x fr fr!
borrow*
@Sean Rooney thundergun is king
Just to echo other comments: American engineering at its best, even after 100 years! Thanks for the video! Cheers
2:59 FINALLY! Someone shoots The Full Auto Tommy with the PROPER FORM!
I just want to add that there’s a lot of good control in this video from what I can see! I’m no expert, but it looks like you all handled this full auto beast in a really stable manner, and with a lot of hits on target!
The cutts compensator helps with that.
And the fact that the gun is basically a boat anchor.
@@douglasmcnay644 ammo that runs about 700fps, and a 10lb gun lol.
Well, the compensator, & the weight of the Thompson itself.
@@douglasmcnay644 it's heavy, I wouldn't want to carry it in battle
AK 47 and Thompson are the most legendary weapons of all time.
Same
You forgot more 3:
IMI Desert Eagle
M4A1/M16
Mosin Nagant
And the legendary gun:
M1 Garand
@@lilianviegas2687 and your mom
@@ifarded8026 😂😂
Kicks ass 100 years later! True classic!
I use to do work for this businessman years ago who had a lot of money, and he also owned two
U.S. Military Thompsons with stick magazines, these were very rugged, and heavy weapons 😳.
These are definitely very reliable and beautiful weapons. I just watched this video 4 time's in a row,
fantastic, thank you for sharing. 😁👍🏻
I’m glad you enjoyed the video, thank you!
@@GunsOfTheWorld Brilliant video mate. I watch with jealousy with no right to bear arms. Bloody UK.
Beautiful just beautiful. Tommy guns are always special
Those who have seen Home Alone say, “Keep the change, ya filthy animal!”
I however, with a wild-ass imagination at a young age thought it was, “Now beat it, ya filthy animal!”
? This is so random wtf lol
@@yourtrappedinmygenjutsu
As I originally wrote, I was a young preteen kid with a wild-ass imagination and not the best listening skills.
@@yourtrappedinmygenjutsu So...in the movie Home Alone, the kid plays a TV to scare off bandits. The TV scene is a man saying the above line and spraying a Thompson at villains. The bandits, only hearing the TV think that they're actually being shot at.
Both this video and the Home Alone TV guy have this Thompson model, hence the comment.
@@jonathanallard2128 I got it immediately, love that line
"...yea, I believe ya... ....but my Tommy Gun don't!"
They're still in use in Vietnam in 1968 they didn't have the range of an M16 but in a firefight they were a hell of a lot more devastating and a lot handier the dragging around the M60 where you needed someone to help you hump your ammo
M16 suck
@@aoquanghuy3676 M16 was an excellent weapon . The army just screwed it up by not following Stoner's instructions.
If I recall, they fired a 45acp rd,no range at all,they were sweppers,having wired in a real gun shop and having restored some of these,alot of cast parts,rough cast parts,took alot of machine work too make one look good like customer wanted,bad ass looking,no effect at further ranges,still cool!!!
@@anthonyfoutch3152 They can than Robert McNamara for that eff up. He and his "whiz kids" bean counters stuck their hands in the fielded version and eliminated things to cut costs. The cuts made it an unreliable POS when first introduced.
@@anthonyfoutch3152
556 sucks. To small.
“M’yeah! You were good, kid, real good! But as long as I’m around, you’ll always be second best, see?”
this gun is so well crafted being able to shoot full auto with barely any recoil
That’s cool, straight up no bullshit just Thompson submachinegun unloading property!
That gun has been useful to me when I was fighting against giants bats, giants crabs and centipedes.
“About 40 bullets on backup.”
I don't get the reference but if I had to guess I would say the Metro games?
@@turtlemaster2957 I'm thinking Kong.
@@intruative good to know
I'm convinced that would never get old.
I'm convinced that being able to purchase several manniquins and to be able to take your SERIOUS frustrations out on them via one of these ^^^ is even MORE therapeutic. But I'm probably going to bring more attention to myself from "professionals" from posting such a comment....But I'll take that risk😂😂😂
@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025 Naughty boy! 😁
"Let's mow down those goons and steal their Walther PPKs!"
Even drum mag Thompsons were used in WWII.
I recall an account from a Thompson-carrying Marine that took part in several island invasions in WW2...he said that he would load with a drum mag for initially hitting the beach, but once it was expended he would discard the drum and use his stick mags from then on.
Reminds me of the Great Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders in the tv series "COMBAT". What an awesome weapon. Thanks for sharing..the highlight of my day!
I wanted to be him. But I was so disappointed to find out he didn't even like guns. His Tommy was a wooden prop, except for when he shot it. Too heavy.
@@bloodybones63, did they give "Kirby" a wooden prop BAR? The Thompson is heavy as hell, but the BAR was truly a LOAD!
@@d.mangham5204 I haven't read anything about his BAR, but I would imagine so, being so heavy & carrying it around when filming days were sometimes what, 10, 14 hours.I do know that Vic & Rick Jason didn't have to ask for a raise together. If one got a raise, the other did also, because the producers knew the other would demand it. IIRC, they were getting $10,000 per episode toward the end. Shocking that Jason killed himself after a final reunion of the guys from the show.
@@bloodybones63 i saw that too that it was wooden.
Don’t give me that. You’ve been smooching with everybody.Snuffy,Al,Leo, Moe with the gimpy leg,Cheeks, Bony Bob. Cliff😂😂😂
no! it’s a lie!
I could go on forever baby
Is scene that actually from a movie? Or was it just made for the home alone movie? If it’s an actual movie, what’s the name of it? I know that I used to know the answer to this question.. but my memory has its gaps at times..
@@chriswest5360 Angels with Filthy Souls, And Angels with even filthier souls. They were parody’s they made for both Home Alones
My favorite scene!!!
This is one of three guns I will buy when I become an adult.
The rate of fire on that thing is incredible, especially for its age. It’s an all American sub that should’ve keep evolving. Imagine what it would be today if they didn’t stop making them.
It was too expensive (and heavy)hence the GREASE exists to replace it.
As someone else wrote in this comment section "fun fact!: earlier versions are prototypes of the Thompson smg had a fire rate similar to the MG42! This fire rate was only reduced because the army wanted a controllable smg with some spray potential"
@@hjarsen9251 The Thompson does remind me of the MG42 now that you mention it.
Meh SMGS are obsolete for the most part anyway, SBRs and carbines replaced most of them
It was stupidly heavy, twice the weight of a modern AR carbine
It was also expensive to make, costing as much as several rifles or seven Colt 1911 pistols.
Such a legendary weapon that will never die. What a beauty.
At 1:58 it almost sounded like some kind of space-gun. Beautiful.
DAMN!!! AWESOME!!! Next to the, 1911, 45 auto, and the Browning auto, my favorite weapons, ever since I saw the, tv show The Untouchables, in '59.
I'm a police officer and my dept. still has a couple of them in the armory. They've long been retired , but they are kept in good working order though they will never be fielded again. They bring them out on occasion and fire them for demo purposes every few years.
"If you're lookin' for me, honey, I'll be on the back porch with the Tommy gun."
'Merica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Gen-Z Independent
You can buy one but it's gonna be freakin expensive. The only full autos you can buy are ones made prior to 1986. They're usually $10,000 minimum plus the $200 NFA tax stamp for a full auto weapon PLUS another $200 tax stamp because it's a short barreled rifle cause the barrel is less than 16 inches. Wanna put a sound suppressor on it? That's another $200. Why $200? Because that was the purchase price of a Thompson sub-gun in 1934 when the National Firearms Act went into effect. Prior to that you could buy one at a hardware store as easily as you can buy a drill or a chainsaw now.
@Independent:
Wrong, you can purchase them but it takes a shit ton of money, background checks and hoops to jump through.
Where in god's name do you live that you have SNOW 350 days a year?! xD
Welcome to Canada. EH.
@@anthonyharveeconciliado1236 Is it in Canada? His channel location is set to United States Oo .
366
Maybe Alaska idk
They are different clips from different times of him shooting the gun, so some clips could be from winter, and others could be recent
Classic gun! One of my favorites. Heavy old beast though. My dad carried one in Korea patrolling the compound as security.
Say hello to AL capone's little friend
Every home should have one of these guns for home protection
Well this is where I might turn into a "libtard" and vehemently disagree with your use of the word "every" in your comment.😶
Every Tommy gun for every people on this earth, man would like to see it lol
@@poierkaile417 Well until those richer than you can afford a 50 cal. machine gun.....Much farther range than a Thompson sub-machine gun.
I hope one day every man can get guns for themselves, then there is no reason for governments to exist
classic and holds true to this day.. a Legend and hero of the past!!!
1:36 The ring you hear after he hits the metal is in Ab. You're welcome.
Gotta love that Cutt’s compensator
Such a cool gun. Was surprised by how heavy and sturdy they are.
You know I got 1 just a kittle while ago , unfortunately its not exactly like the 1 in this video it doesn’t have those (ribs cuts?) on the barrel , i think thats what they’re called , and the grip is normal not a foregrip like this 1 . And sure its got some weight to it . I hekd it for a good 10 minutes just to see if it gets tiring , but I didn’t find it overwhelming , but at the same time i have forgotten a bit how much an M-16 weighs compared to it , is it heavier than an M-16 ?
I should call my friend nearby he has 1 we’ll compare both , that seems fun
Bestill my heart! Such a beautiful tool. Thanks for posting this!
This is one of those guns that has a unique distinct sound. You know it's a Thompson. This Gorgeous SMG had the potential to be transformed into a tactical version.
I mean technically the tactical version is taking off the stock
Wow, it's a full-fledged Chicago typewriter
I carried an MP5 for many years. I love my modified Thompson 1928 model. I never used one in the field, but mine would do as well as my MP5 except for weight. It is a heavy gun.
That full auto is awesome... but the slo-mo is so cool! That is the ultimate "Chicago Typewriter"... one of the firearm icons, for sure!