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Posted: 5/21/2020 6:12:27 PM EDT
  The original owner of the company stated that he sold the rights to it and it would be back out “shortly”, that was around a decade ago. Imagine one of these with a binary trigger! It used an UNMODIFIED Suomi M-31 9mm drum. Early Thread Later Thread |
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Posted: 5/21/2020 6:48:22 PM EDT
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Have you noticed the plethora of Thompson drums from WW II?
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Posted: 5/21/2020 9:11:00 PM EDT
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Between the price of Suomi M-31 drums having gone up and Glock 9mm drum mags being fairly reasonably priced, a Suomi drum magwell AR lower no longer makes economic sense, if it even did ten years ago.
MHO, YMMV, etc. Be well. ETA: From what I've read, the Dakota Indians have an old saying: When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. |
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Posted: 5/23/2020 10:11:41 AM EDT
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I can fap to those aesthetics
 Sometimes it's not about how much it costs if it's awesome. |
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Posted: 5/25/2020 10:49:55 AM EDT
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Always been interested in the Tommy-15 from the beginning and have PLENTY of Suomi drums if it had (will) ever come to production.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 1:47:14 AM EDT
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One is still on my list of things to do...
 ....and I have a magwell mocked up out of steel and lower cut to accommodate it just have to work out the correct height of the magwell on the chopped lower, But I am running a few weeks of back log these days due to the wonderful influx of orders that keep me and family fed..... One of these days..........
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Posted: 6/7/2020 1:45:06 AM EDT
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Quoted: Imagine one of these with a binary trigger! Better yet, imagine it with the RLL that can be seen sitting with it in the picture. Last I heard 5 or so years ago the rights to the design were still up for sale. I may need to try to make one out of a cheapo Anderson upper and lower and an RDB bolt and barrel. |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 6:58:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Better yet, imagine it with the RLL that can be seen sitting with it in the picture. Last I heard 5 or so years ago the rights to the design were still up for sale. I may need to try to make one out of a cheapo Anderson upper and lower and an RDB bolt and barrel. Better yet, if you have an MGI lower, just get a spare standard AR magwell and mod that. The MGI lowers already have the serial number placed on the rear of the lower away from the magwell. Or do an 80% lower build which would be cheaper. That also gives you a chance to get the Suomi mag well fitting just right before machining out the rear part of the lower. I had considered these but now I have the belt fed FM9 if I really want to dump a lot of 9mm. Sure, I'd like a delayed system but I find the FM9 to be smoother than a standard blowback. I think it is because of all the extra energy to strip the rounds on the forward stroke and then to pull the belt on the rearward stroke softens up the impulse. |
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Posted: 6/7/2020 9:56:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The old article in Small Arms Review discussed how you cannot obliterate the serial number on the lower which is typically located on the magwell. I think the article mentioned that http://www.floridaammotraders.com/ had worked with Olympic Arms to make them lowers where the serial number was put on the back half of the lower away from the magwell. Better yet, if you have an MGI lower, just get a spare standard AR magwell and mod that. The MGI lowers already have the serial number placed on the rear of the lower away from the magwell. Or do an 80% lower build which would be cheaper. That also gives you a chance to get the Suomi mag well fitting just right before machining out the rear part of the lower. I had considered these but now I have the belt fed FM9 if I really want to dump a lot of 9mm. Sure, I'd like a delayed system but I find the FM9 to be smoother than a standard blowback. I think it is because of all the extra energy to strip the rounds on the forward stroke and then to pull the belt on the rearward stroke softens up the impulse. That's a really great point regarding the serial number...I hadn't thought of that. I do have an MGI lower that I purchased years ago and have never used. I'd like to get an FM9 too, but they seem to have been out of stock for years now. :( |
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Posted: 6/8/2020 11:47:23 AM EDT
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I was thinking the 80% receiver route myself since I have plenty of the Suomi drums that I bought YEARS ago...now if I only had the WECSOG skills to do something about it.
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Posted: 6/12/2020 4:07:45 PM EDT
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IF I could get my hands on one of the adapters, I have a friend with a decent sized machine shop that could CNC a bunch out of S7 steel. (He’s also a C-II as a sideline)
I’m pretty sure there’s NO Patent after this many years! And yes I knew about the serial number issue, I was planning to use one of my “80%” lowers for the build. |
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