Massive Stash Of WW2 Brit Surplus Thompsons Found, Coming Up For Sale
By Zac K
The quest for treasure has consumed human imagination for centuries, whether buried pirate gold or submerged, shipwrecked Spanish doubloons. But what about finding long-lost firepower? Florida-based Bowman Arms says it’s bringing a load of surplus Thompson submachine guns to the market after they spent decades “submerged” in a secret location.Thompson Submachine Guns @ TFB: [SHOT 2024] Hands on With Bishop Ammunition & Firearms’ Thompson Inspired AR45TC Thompson Auto-Ordnance Introduces Limited Edition D-Day Series Guns Forgotten History of Thompson SMG in Secret Police and Army of Soviet Russia Mysterious Experimental Thompson SMG with a Folding StockWhere did they come from?Bowman Arms hasn’t said the actual location of these submachine guns, but originally, they were Model 1928 Thompsons owned by the British military in World War II. After World War II, the Brits packed them with grease and hid them away—they stored them so carefully that according to Bowman, they figured the Brits planned to come back for them later.Bowman showed the Thompsons in a thread on Reddit, starting off with these details:“These are British surplus WW2 (Model 1928) Thompsons. Dumped
Source: The Firearm Blog
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