The Thompson Autorifle, also called the Thompson Model 1923 Autoloading Rifle, was an American semi-automatic rifle designed between 1923 and 1929 by Auto-Ordnance using a Blish lock to delay its action, chambered originally for .30-06 with a 1923 version also offered in 7.62x54mmR. Auto-Ordnance submitted prototypes for United States military trials, including a 1929 version in .276 Pedersen that competed against John C. Garand's gas-operated design, but the rifle was never adopted, in part because it needed lubricated ammunition to function and ejected spent cases violently enough to endanger bystanders; the trials it lost were eventually won by Garand's M1 rifle. It fed from 5 or 20-round detachable box magazines by delayed blowback. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Wikipedia: Thompson Autorifle
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Garand's gas-operated design, but the rifle was never adopted, in part because it needed lubricated ammunition to function and ejected spent cases violently enough to endanger bystanders; the trials it lost were eventually won by Garand's M1 rifle
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.30 06 7.62x54mmR .276 Pedersen .303 British
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The Thompson Autorifle, (also referred to as the Thompson Model 1923 Autoloading Rifle; and the .30-06 Model 1923 Semi-Automatic Rifle, among others, etc.) was a semi-automatic rifle that used a Blish lock to delay the action of the weapon.
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Wikidata Q7795694, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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