M1911.ORG | Thompson TC Review
A (not so) Brief History of Auto-Ordnance Like a number of company names in the U.S. firearms industry, the Auto-Ordnance name has been around for a comparatively long time. Some of the names are simply old names bought up and slapped on new, recently-created companies. Others are old names whose companies essentially went belly up […]
Guns Magazine | TRUE VALUE
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USCCA | The Thompson™ 1911PKZMA .45: Historically Accurate, Reasonably Priced
In the HBO® epic Band of Brothers, there is a brief “firearms oops” in the scene where Private Webster confronts a baker who is reluctant to supply bread from his shop to the starving prisoners of the liberated Nazi Concentration camp outside town. He stuffs his GI .45 into the baker’s face to gain cooperation, […]
Concealed Carry Magazine | The Auto-Ordnance Thompson Custom 1911
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Guns and Ammo | The Terrific Thompson
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The “Tommy’s” Thompson
In May 1921, Gen. John Taliaferro Thompson went on a sales tour of Europe, visiting Belgium, Britain, France and Spain to promote his innovative “submachine gun,” a term he coined for the fully automatic .45 ACP that arrived too late for service in World War I. He was invited to demonstrate the Model 1921 at […]
American Rifleman | Thompson Submachine Gun: The Tommy Gun Goes to War
The U.S. Army wasn’t particularly impressed with the concept of a submachine gun, and little ordnance research and development was done following World War I. However, a distinguished Ordnance Dept. officer who retired a couple of years before America’s entry into that war felt that the submachine gun had the potential to be an extremely […]
Shooting Magazine | .30 Carbine Combo
.30 Carbine Combo The classic .30 Carbine is not just a nice little carbine cartridge. It’s great in a revolver, too. Shooting Times Magazine, February 2011, p. 54 – 58 By Layne Simpson, Photo by Mike Anschuetz I had forgotten how much fun the M1 Carbine is to shoot. I bought my first one […]
Guns Magazine | GUNS OF THE PACIFIC
HBO chronicles the WWII island battles against the Japanese. GUNS Magazine, October 2010, p. 52 – 57 By Mike “Duke” Venturino Photos: Yvonne Venturino, David James/HBO Like millions of others I recently finished watching the 10-part HBO mini-series The Pacific. Its subject was the US Marine Corps’ campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations […]
On Target | Presentation Grade 1911 A1
A show-gun you can shoot! On Target, August/September 2008, p. 48 – 51 By Bob & Sandy Rodgers Those of us who now look wistfully at the Grecian Formula commercials remember a time when manufacturers could afford to lavish huge amounts of skilled hand labor on their guns. It was a different era, with […]
