Thompson M1928 Blank Firer ...

Looks terrific, C, did you buy this?

I love looking at these scratch built blank guns.

There is a movie gun rental company in BC, that has a big collection, he told me when he first started business it was next to impossible to get real machine guns, so they built them from scratch, now illegal, but they were very interesting, he has since registered them all as machine guns.

It's less complicated, paperworkwise to buy a dealer sample (if you have the SOT and dealer permit) of the real thing, and go through the paperwork (or a transferable if you have the money), here in the US, but I like looking at them on sites like this and the reenacting sites.

Hi JJ,

Nope it isn't mine, I wish it was

Perhaps Falay can shed more light on this item? Maybe even a video?

Hi fellas,

I can't comment specifically on the M1928, but I purchased one of DG's Thompson M1A1s in 1999.

They are scratch built top-venting B/Fs chambered for 9mm Parabellum crimped blanks and feed from an Uzi magazine contained in an original Thompson magazine body.

The upper receiver and 2 part lower receiver are not interchangeable with a genuine or other replica M1A1.  

The M1A1 functions in F/A only, there is no select fire mechanism.

DG began work on the M1928, after production of the first batch of M1A1s ended.

Like the M1A1, the M1928 functions in F/A only.

I asked him at the time if the receiver would be milled to allow the possibility of a drum, but no.

It is possible to make a functional drum conversion.

A few years back I obtained a couple of Suomi KP31 drums from Finland to mod them with a magazine rail tab adapter.

I later found out that a guy in the US did the same thing with his NFA M1A1 for which he had made a 9mm barrel and bolt conversion.

I bought 3 m1a1 thompsons years ago, the mags were the biggest fault with them, as uzi mags inside Thompson mags

well thought out design of his, nice guy bought mine when I went to his house

Please Pm me a contact for the builder of these -
I am in the Uk for three months on a production - trying to get blank firers, instead of these bloody plastic air soft guns the prop guys want to use.

jesse.
www.jessevjohnson.com

pitfighter wrote:

Please Pm me a contact for the builder of these -
I am in the Uk for three months on a production - trying to get blank firers, instead of these bloody plastic air soft guns the prop guys want to use.

jesse.
www.jessevjohnson.com

hes dead

As happens to us all eventually.

Thanks for the update - sorry to hear it.

philb wrote:

pitfighter wrote:

Please Pm me a contact for the builder of these -
I am in the Uk for three months on a production - trying to get blank firers, instead of these bloody plastic air soft guns the prop guys want to use.

jesse.
www.jessevjohnson.com

hes dead

I saw one of the M1928's come up for sale fairly recently at £2500. Was it one of only 25 originally made or some such similar figure?? Beautifully made replica and sad to hear of his death. RIP