New York City: You've come a long way baby

Vintage Ad Campaign

http://www.firearmstruth.com/wp-cont...-Tommy-Gun.jpg

Store located at 302 Broadway, New York City.

I love vintage ads.

A higher-res copy of that, as well as other vintage Thompson ads, can be found here:

http://www.auto-ordnancecorporation.com/

A high resolution, fully functional example can be found here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps947322b5.jpg

(Note: This device is NOT legal for possession by anyone living in, around, or near NY. Or within earshot of Bloomberg and his anti-Big Gulp cronies, so keep your televisions and radios turned "off")

So firing from the hip was really a thing?

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Originally Posted by G60

So firing from the hip was really a thing?

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Yup. It lacked the shoulder thingy that goes up, so it's not so bad.

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So firing from the hip was really a thing?

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Yep. Here's Stoner himself doing it in a promotional video for the AR-10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lap8cmxJHTU

A lot of people on our side make fun of the antis for the hip-fire talking point.

It's not that they made it up... it's just that they're a half-century behind in technique.

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Originally Posted by G60

So firing from the hip was really a thing?

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Hip-shooting full auto long guns goes 'way back. The Browning Automatic Rifle as originally issued had no bipod: the original doctrine for use of the BAR in WWI called for "walking fire", bursts as the BAR-man advanced across No Mans Land. IIRC, the BAR gunner's ammo belt had a socket that he was supposed to place the butt into.

Hip shooting is for kittens.

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