Ordnance", Cross-Cannon final acceptance proof, with a "GHD" inspector stamp in the middle and the top, very rear area is also stamped "U.S. The front left side is stamped with a very faint "U.S. The right side is marked in two lines "AUTO ORDNANCE CORPORATION/BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT U.S.A.". This example has the standard Lyman "L" type fixed rear sight, horizontal walnut forearm and fixed walnut buttstock. They also employed a side-mounted cocking handle and a fixed firing pin with a slightly longer bolt which allowed the weapon to be manufactured on cheaper and easier basis. The war expedient features included the elimination of the barrel cooling fins, Cutt's compensator, adjustable rear sight and removable buttstock. The amnesty paperwork (copy included) cites a serial number of "432864" as being "on barrel" (actually the receiver number) and "665086 on trigger guard" when the ATF made up the tax stamp paperwork, they used the trigger guard number as the serial number, technically making that the registered component. Army stores to the Anchorage Police Department of Anchorage, Alaska circa 1957, and sat unregistered in their inventory until the 1968 Amnesty.
Per information provided by the consignor, this M1 was released from U.S. The M1A1 was introduced in April 1942 as a war-expedient/simplified version of the M1928 Thompson Submachine Gun. This is a very fine example of a World War II production M1A1 Thompson Submachine Gun manufactured by the Auto Ordnance Corp.
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