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Originally Posted by phillb36
Does anyone know what year the 20 & 30 round magazines were introduced for the Thompson SMG?
I ask because someone posted the following "goof" for "Public Enemies" on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/goofs
He's insinuating that box magazines didn't exist until after the start of WW2..isn't this total BS? Weren't the 20 round magazines available when the the 1921 model Thompson came on the market? I'm not sure when the 30 round mags became available, but I thought it was prior to WW2. Can anyone clear this up for me? Thanks. |
The 20 round magazine was available when the M1921 was first introduced to the gun buying public. From what I remember, the M1 and M1A1 were introduced in either late 1941 or early 1942
(steve, jump in if you can 
) but I'm doing this from memory (and no, I'm not THAT old hahaha) so the 30 round magazine was developed since the soldiers didn't like the rattle of the drum magazines. But the drums were available since the late 1920s and were issued in the pre WW2 years to the U.S. Military (in the late 1930s) and as lend lease weapons to our allies. Photos of soldiers BEFORE Dec 7th show them with M1928 thompsons with drums.
The 20 round magazines have been around since the beginning, and 30 round magazines were developed for the M1 series of Thompsons since they could NOT take the drum magazines, so the 30 round magazines were WW2 issued items and not issued until after 1941.