{"id":5496,"date":"2016-10-17T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/17\/thompson-smg-in-30-carbine\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:26:19","slug":"thompson-smg-in-30-carbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/17\/thompson-smg-in-30-carbine\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson SMG in 30 Carbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lW-IjtiVthc?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the US military released a request for what would become the M1 Carbine in 1940, the Auto-Ordnance Corporation offered up a Thompson submachine gun simply rechambered for the new .30 Carbine cartridge. This entailed a new magazine, a receiver modified for the longer magazine, and a new barrel and bolt face &#8211; but the other Thompson parts could remain unchanged form the standard .45 ACP models. This made the submission a pretty cheap and easy effort for Auto-Ordnance&#8230;which is a good thing, considering that it was almost assured to be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>The stipulations for the new carbine included a weigh requirement of 5 pounds, and the Thompson weighed more than double that (in both .45ACP and .30 Carbine forms). Only a few were made, and the one submitted for military testing was rejected outright on the basis of weight. This example is serial number 1, and resides at the Cody Firearms Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\nThompson T2 Prototype SMG: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1o9q5Xh69AM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1o9q5Xh69AM<\/a><br \/>\nBendix-Hyde 2nd Model Prototype Carbine: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JoL5pXB8Ln4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JoL5pXB8Ln4<\/a><br \/>\nCzech ZK-383 SMG: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MlFdhAK5c7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MlFdhAK5c7Q<\/a><br \/>\nReising M55 SMG: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JVH9aEF2EX0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JVH9aEF2EX0<\/a><br \/>\nS&#038;W Model 1940 Light Rifle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yoeGGm_V9mw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yoeGGm_V9mw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons When the US military released a request for what would become the M1 Carbine in 1940, the Auto-Ordnance Corporation offered up a Thompson submachine gun simply rechambered for the new .30 Carbine cartridge. This entailed a new magazine, a receiver modified for the longer magazine, and a new barrel&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/17\/thompson-smg-in-30-carbine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thompson SMG in 30 Carbine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15141,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/15141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}