Dragon WW2 U.S. Army M1A1 Thompson Machine Gun w/3-Cell Ammo Pouch

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Dragon WW2 U.S. Army M1A1 Thompson Machine Gun w/3-Cell Ammo Pouch:
$15.00

This TOY is a highly accurate reproduction for 1/6 scale action figures

Dragon WW2 U.S. Army M1928A1 Thompson Machine Gun w/3-Cell Ammo Pouch

You get one M1928A1 Thompson Machine Gun by Dragon. Includes M1928A1 Thompson machine gun with muzzle brake, webbing strap, 30 round magazine, cloth 3-cell ammo pouch and web belt. The ammo pouch is not Dragon.

A brief history. The Thompson Submachine Gun was developed by General John T. Thompson who originally envisioned an auto rifle (semi-automatic rifle) to replace the bolt action service rifles then in use. While searching for a way to allow such a weapon to operate safely without the complexity of a recoil or gas operated mechanism, Thompson came across a patent issued to John Bell Blish in 1915 based on adhesion of inclined metal surfaces under pressure. By late 1917, the limits of the Blish Principle were discovered: rather than working as a locked breech, it functioned as a friction-delayed blowback action. It was found that the only cartridge currently in U.S. service suitable for use with the lock was the .45 ACP round. Thompson then envisioned a \"one-man, hand-held machine gun\" in .45 ACP as a \"trench broom\" for use in the ongoing trench warfare of World War I. Payne designed the gun itself and its stick and drum magazines. The project was then titled \"Annihilator I\" and by 1918, most of the design issues had been resolved. However, the war ended two days before prototypes could be shipped to Europe. At an Auto-Ordnance board meeting in 1919 to discuss the marketing of the \"Annihilator,\" with the war now over, the weapon was officially renamed the \"Thompson Submachine Gun.\" While other weapons had been developed shortly prior with similar objectives in mind, the Thompson was the first weapon to be labeled and marketed as a \"submachine gun.\" Thompson intended the weapon as an automatic \"trench-broom\" to sweep enemy troops from the trenches, filling a role for which the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) had been proven ill-suited. This concept had already been developed by German troops using their own Bergmann MP18, the world\'s first submachine gun, in concert with sturmtruppen tactics. The Thompson first entered production as the M1921. It was available to civilians, although poor sales resulted from the expense of the weapon. M1921 Thompsons were sold in small quantities to the United States Postal Inspection Service(to protect the mail from a spate of robberies)and to the United States Marine Corps. In 1938, the Thompson submachine gun was adopted by the U.S. military, serving during World War II and beyond. There were two military types of Thompson SMG. The M1928A1 had provisions for box and drum magazines. It had a Cutts compensator, cooling fins on the barrel, employed a delayed blowback action and its charging handle was on the top of the receiver. The M1 and M1A1 had a barrel without cooling fins, a simplified rear sight, provisions only for box magazines, employed a straight blowback action and the charging handle was on the side of the receiver. Over 1.5 million military Thompson submachine guns were produced during World War II.

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