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The 1927A1 T1-14 model starts with that distinctive milled and welded Cutts compensator up front, designed to reduce muzzle rise under extended bursts of full-auto fire by diverting gases up through four wide slots on top to push the muzzle down while firing. At 12.5 pounds unloaded, even before you insert a 10-, 20- or 30-round stick magazine, or a 10-, 50- or 100-round drum magazine (the 1927A1 can accommodate both), there’s no doubt when you pick one up that this baby’s built for the long haul. The 1927A1 T1-14 is one solidly reassuring mass of walnut and steel, unapologetically without a single piece of plastic in or on it anywhere. More Details The fit and finish on the test gun were excellent, with high-quality bluing on the 1927A1’s receiver and well-crafted walnut furniture. I’ve worked with Auto-Ordnance Tommy guns before, and I’m not shy about saying anything that trims an ounce or two off these guns, without altering the looks or the quality, is OK by me. Does that game-change the world as we know it? For most, probably not.
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So, this new Tommy gun is 1.5 inches shorter than the older Auto-Ordnace 1927A1s. Flash suppressors, muzzle brakes, compensators and so on can make up a part of those 16 inches as long as they can’t be removed to create a short-barreled rifle (SBR) falling under the National Firearms Act of 1934. The feds call for a minimum of 16 inches of something out front, but it doesn’t all have to be a rifled tube. This one ships with a 16.5-inch overall barrel length in 1927A1 form, but that 16.5 inches includes a permanently attached, non-removable Cutts compensator as a part of its total length. Since 18 inches that really should be 12 continues to annoy some buyers, and nobody removes that compensator to leave bare muzzle threads hanging out anyway, in 2016, Auto-Ordnance created a new model designated the T1-14. In the standard Deluxe 1927A1 configuration that Auto-Ordnance has sold for many years, the 16.5-inch barrel had an additional inch and a half added to the muzzle with the screw-on Cutts compensator that completed the classic “gangster” profile and brought the actual barrel length to 18 inches overall. This has been the main gripe about the semi-auto Thompsons ever since they were first introduced-a clear case of the Just Doesn’t Look Right Syndrome compounded by extra ounces of unnecessary steel out front that make a heavy gun even heavier. This is a nuisance to the purists who know that the original Thompsons had barrels of either 12 inches with Cutts compensators or 10.5 inches without, but to avoid Class III NFA restrictions, these semi-auto Thompsons are fitted with 16.5-inch barrels.
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You’re probably enough of a gun person to be aware that your friendly federal government takes a dim view of rifles with barrels less than 16 inches long. Barrel Length The T1-14 variant of the classic Thompson has a shorter barrel with a permanently attached Cutts compensator. All things considered (collector pricing, federal paperwork hassles and the cost of actually firing a 600-rpm submachine gun), a semi-auto-only version of this hundred-year-old design makes sense to those who want a landmark piece of history to heft, fire and show off at the range. It’s the closest most of us can come to the “real thing.” It looks like a Tommy gun, it feels like a Tommy gun, and it throws a big slug like a Tommy gun, even if it does only toss those slugs out one at a time per trigger pull. 45 ACP firepower in a subgun that’s not really a subgun in today’s market dominated by featherweight plastics and alloys? Simple. What’s the appeal of a heavy walnut-dressed chunk of solid-steel.