{"id":7784,"date":"2015-10-04T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/04\/thompson-riot-ammo\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:37:44","slug":"thompson-riot-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/04\/thompson-riot-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson Riot Ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ud3Csq6568k?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>Hammer prices:<br \/>\nAmmo and magazine lot: $1,200<br \/>\nThompson: $22,500<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the Peters company made ammunition specifically for riot control for the Thompson submachine gun in the 1920s? And it wasn&#8217;t rubber bullets, either &#8211; it was paper-wrapped snakeshot. The cartridges were actually longer than a standard magazine would accept, necessitating the production of a special longer magazine to fit them. That magazine would hold 18 rounds, and was specially marked as such. I took a look at a lot of 200 rounds of this ammo and one of the special magazines, and was curious how it would actually pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Peters riot ammo is rare and expensive, but we also had some WWII-vintage .45ACP snakeshot on hand and I was able to try shooting some of that. At about 8 feet it made a pattern about 18 inches in diameter (from a rifled Tommy Gun barrel), and did not cycle the action. It was only after filming that I discovered the proper way to use this ammo for crowd control: fire it into the pavement in front of the crowd, allowing it to ricochet up into the crowd at a lower velocity. It would be less lethal that way, but still a great way to lose an eye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.Patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Hammer prices: Ammo and magazine lot: $1,200 Thompson: $22,500 Did you know that the Peters company made ammunition specifically for riot control for the Thompson submachine gun in the 1920s? And it wasn&#8217;t rubber bullets, either &#8211; it was paper-wrapped snakeshot. The cartridges were actually longer than a standard magazine would accept, necessitating the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/04\/thompson-riot-ammo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thompson Riot Ammo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7785,"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-7784","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\/7784","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=7784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15491,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions\/15491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}