Brand new Thompsons

This video has already been discussed, and those Thompson's aren't new.

They're FTRed and packed in Soviet era crates.

Horilka describes the process well and he worked in those warehouses.
 
Don't forget that those are ex US Lend Lease guns sent in WW2 to the Soviet Union, who had little reason to put them to use. They took American fighter planes, GMC trucks, Sherman and Grant tanks, and Valentine tanks and No.19 Radio Sets from Canada. That equipment was never destroyed after the end of the war, because someone calculated it might help Mother Russia in the hands of a Freedom Fighter. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese received lots of ex WW2 German and American arms as lethal aid. The fact it still is in one place in a former Soviet republic is more surprising to me.
 
They are used but many are slightly. I got 5 Thompsons out of Czechoslovakia a few years back, 2 x 1928s and 3 x M1s.

Bores are excellent, slight wear on the exteriors and some storage dings. Basically very low usage.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
Don't forget that those are ex US Lend Lease guns sent in WW2 to the Soviet Union, who had little reason to put them to use. They took American fighter planes, GMC trucks, Sherman and Grant tanks, and Valentine tanks and No.19 Radio Sets from Canada. That equipment was never destroyed after the end of the war, because someone calculated it might help Mother Russia in the hands of a Freedom Fighter. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese received lots of ex WW2 German and American arms as lethal aid. The fact it still is in one place in a former Soviet republic is more surprising to me.
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I have my Dad's Mark III Set No. 19. Still on the air the odd time. English and Russian Cyrillic labeling on the front panel.
 
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