Heirloom ATF piece. . . You didn't have to file for a "Trust" to inherit it.?
I know you can inherit pistols without re-registering them.
but "select-fire" class 3 stuff ? . . .don't you need a new tax stamp for a transfer ?
So technically you
CAN transfer select fire weapons tax-free, but only once, on an ATF Form 5. My dad already got 'em that way, so he and I had to set up a trust to keep passing them down. Which means we had to file for 3 new stamps to transfer both Thompsons and the MP40 to the trust. My father is still around, so we trade 'em back and forth occasionally, as a trust allows. Which is why I could only show off 1 Thompson prior, he had the other 1 until a few weeks ago. I highly recommend a trust, I've added my SBRs to it as well so they can be shared. If my dad had bought the guns though,
then they could've transfered to me for free on a Form 5.
And I had a real red Ryder "Pop-Gun" . . .looked like a BB-Gun, but no BB's.
Hey, I had 1 of those, too. Exactly like what you just described, except mine had a silly orange tip because it was in the 90s, but they were STILL making them even then.
I bought a real M1a springfield, instead of an SKS or AK.
I really like SKS's . . .and I like the AK underfolding stock.
But. . .Buy American. . .
Honestly, I love the AK, but prefer the solid wood stock models. I almost never shoot my underfolder version because it's weirdly balanced and 7.62russian has gotten expensive lately. But my father has a Chinese Norinco M14s (that's what they marked it) and honesty it's been great. Seems to be equal to a Springfield, some folks even say the Chinese receivers are tougher and closer to Mil-Spec, though we've never compared it side-by-side.
Briefly I had a real Auto-Ordnance Thompson Carbine. Fixed Stock, stick mags only.
It was not cut for a drum. You could unbolt the stock.. but it was still too heavy.
My M1A1 is exactly like that, the WW2 stock was reinforced for combat use, in case you had to "butt stroke" and enemy with it. The earlier '21 and '28 stock is quick-detach but gets loose and would probably break if you wielded it like a club. I honestly don't like the M1 as much because it's harder to control and blasts gas into you face when shooting. I think the control thing has to do with it having the heaviest bolt, lightest receiver, and no compensator, despite being slower when fired in auto.
I shoot an 11 inch barrel Enforcer M1 carbine pistol with a custom pistol stock.
15rd mags. . .Fast, light. points easy. . .penetrates like a 357 mag. . .
It's a lot like a Mini-14, just doesn't have the ballistics of 5.56.
I've always thought those Enforcer pistols were super neat. Same with the Vietnam "Advisor" M1 pistols, which were basically just a folding stock M1A1 carbine with the barrel sawn off at the receiver. But the Enforcers are cooler, because they were actually meant to be short, plus standard .30carbine has so much punch that it's actually naturally armour piercing, similar to 5.56. I've always thought a select-fire M2 Enforcer would be awsome to see or try out. If I'm not mistaken, I think Patty Hearst carried a converted full-auto Enforcer during the famous bank heist.
Speaking of Hearst, anyone that knows Warren Zavon probably knows where this is going, "Rollin the headless Thompson gunner" was one of his less famous songs. So without further ado, here's my M1A1 style Thompson, and a comparison of 'em together.
This is the magic incantation congress uses to constantly violate the 10th Amendment - "...the manufacture, sale, transportation, distribution, possession, or introduction into interstate commerce of such shall be prohibited"
