Standard Manufacturing is known for the kind of guns you kinda wish you’d thought of yourself. This time, they’ve made the gun we’ve all wanted since we were kids. It’s not a Tommy gun…but if John Thompson had made a tactical version, it would’ve looked a lot like this.
G4S .22 Rifle
The G4S is chambered in .22LR and it’s a semi-automatic rifle. Like the old Tommy submachine gun, its charging handle is on top of the action and it does reciprocate with each shot. It’s also got a slot in the handle that acts as the rear sight.
The only other thing that really looks like a Tommy gun is the 10- or 50-round magazine you can use with it. The 10 is a long single-stack stick and the 50 is a circular drum.
Otherwise, it’s got a thumbhole stock and pic rails on the top and bottom of the forend. M-Lok and KeyMod slots adorn the sides of the forend, too. It’s all machined from 7075 aluminum.
The barrel is 16.5″ long and it’s made of aluminum with a steel liner. With the buttstock fully extended the rifle is 38″ long. The 3-position safety includes a setting to lock the bolt from moving.
The G4S, which is not a Tommy gun, is available now from Standard Manufacturing for $649. The 50-round drum magazine costs $249.
Thinking on putting a copperhead under the rail I’ll buy it
A barrel warmer 🥵
I have one of these MG42 look a likes and they get a lot of comments but that’s about all they are good for & fun shooting.
Looks to me like if you want an optic you’d be limited to a red dot. The rail is to short in the rear and there is to much distance between the front and rear rail. Plus the charging handle would hit the scope. No I think I’ll stick to my 10/22.
looks like somethink i would like at half the price.
10/22 with a 50 round stick. just as much fun, a lot less money.
$650 for the rifle and an additional $250 for a drum magazine? For a 22lr?? Am I missing something here? Looks cool, but not at those prices. I can see that price point if it was 9mm, 5.7×28, or some other centerfire cartridge chambering..
It never fails for shot show to premier the latest and greatest of overpriced gimmicks and garbage.
Standard Manufacturing and others go through the trouble of designing new 22lr carbines and rifles which is a waste of time going up against the Ruger 10/22. Now, if they would make it in .22WMR people would take notice and there would be increased interest. IMO
Call be when they make one in .45/.357/9mm etc.
My thought exactly.
One one word — Yuk
Reckon I’ll stick with my take down Charger with folding brace, at half the price or less, and 110rd drums at $65.
Long 10 round single stack stick….that made me spit coffee thru my nose.
Darn shame they didn’t thread the muzzle to allow you to replace the brake with a suppressor.
There’s a West Hurley 22LR Thompson at a local FunShop, but it’s probably 30K.
Looks more fun in my opinion, but at least magazines would be easier to find for the reviewed item.
@ Hamm, Depends if your baiting varmints in or not. 10’22 is pretty compareable though.
Looks like a fun range toy. A bit pricey with the 50 round drum being an additional $250. I would like to see some range reports before I would consider it.
Fudds won’t like it, and will make snide comments on this article.
I think the gun looks like fun. Not sure about the ergonomics, but it looks like fun, and it’s got a good price point.
This aint for eatin, this is for looking thru! Chief Dan George in Outlaw Josie Whales
Sure glad there are plenty of people with expendable money for ammo burners like this. It serves no purpose for a hunter and target plinker like me.
Could be fun as a plinker. On the other hand, $649 buys a LOT of .22 ammo…
What purpose do you serve?
You don’t have young kids or grandkids, do you?
I swapped an aftermarket MG42-look-alike stock onto one of my 10/22’s, added a drum magazine and a folding bipod for prone shooting, and the grandkids loved it, pretty much to the exclusion of all the other guns my friends and I brought to the range that day. If it had a binary trigger, it would be almost perfect…the rear sight on the “MG42” stock truly sucks, though.