When my nephew and I arrived we were able to test fire a Thompson Submachine gun against the British WWII Sten Gun, Reising submachine gun and an AK 47.  We also brought along my M 1 carbine.

The model with the Thompson fully automatic submachine gun I photographed for Xtreme Magazine was a cute young waitress from PT's Strip Club.  The gun on page one is a replica of a real Thompson, but what the hell, it's close enough, the Belleville Shooting range had one on hand, and I could get the girl over to the gun range for the photo shoot.   But the real test would occur later on at Vic Meyer's country home.