

Hopefully this article will serve to enlighten both buyers and sellers alike. The use of the “Auto-Ordnance” name is generally the source of the confusion. Often it is due to an uninformed buyer, seller or both. These drums are sometimes mistakenly sold as original World War II types or even of earlier manufacture. As with the West Hurley Thompson Submachine Guns, manufactured from 1975 to 1986, there seems to be a LOT of confusion out there regarding these drums. The impetus of writing this piece was to give collectors and shooters a guide to the markings and variations of these “late manufacture” drums. This article is directed at identifying the Thompson drum magazines that were made by the “modern” Auto-Ordnance of West Hurley, New York in a timeframe that ran from 1975 to 1994. My previous Thompson-related article focused on the drum-type magazines manufactured during World War II for U.S.

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