Thompsons are actually pretty common and cheap out here in Utah. See, I misunderstood the term aperture. This is the real aperture sight from ww2:
http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/...tassembled.jpg
This is the one from CoD 5 that I was pretty sure was BS:
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen010.jpg
when I read about Thompsons having "aperture sights" i thought it meant the red dot ish one. I didn't even realize that the small metal circle sight on the garand counted as an aperture sight.
I was a victim of nomenclature, and I'm a better man for getting it worked out in my head.
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