Slenderman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dEc-GrvIx4

you can get new drums for it up to 120 rounds(I cant recommend anything over 100 rounds though. I have yet to see one that was not either overweight (as in 2 X 120 (loaded) drums usualy weigh as mutch as 3 or 4 (Loaded)100 round drums) or needed to be repaired almost every time you use it, or both.

Cardboard cutout, looks to me.

Yea my brother has a semi auto Thompson, but we are talking fully automatic Tommy Gun's here. Anything semi auto (basically, no one get too literal, I know its a forum) is civilian if you want to get technical.

Which in my book makes sense, bombs dropped in 2077, you think New gun designs would replace the old by then. Plus it adds to the feeling that the world of Fallout is similar but not the same as ours.

It makes no sense. The Fallout universe is supposed to be stuck in the 50s, stylistically, right up until the great war.

The Fallout universe is based off of a 1950s vision of the future, not a future stuck in the 50s.

It's both.

Yeah stylishly, but that shouldn't mean blindly sticking to using the exact same guns for over 100 years.

And Beth seems to think so to, as we are getting guns that respect the 1950s aesthetics, while not being carbon copies of guns from that time.

I always found it funny that the only energy weapons in Fallout that actually looked like classic retro-futuristic laser guns from 50s sci-fi were the Alien Blasters and what have you. I actually really love the look of the Laser Pistols and Rifles, although I wish I could say the same for Bethesda's Plasma weapons.

Yea, but FO2 and NV both borrowed extensively from more modern designs, such as the HK P90, which I felt spoiled the Fallout feeling.

True, but so far thats not been the case, at least not in my mind, again you can respect the 1950s aesthetics and still use original gun designs.

Ya know the U.S. armed forces are doing just that...

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_pistol has been in service since WWI and is still used by the Marine Corps. Not even mention how popular it is among the public.

We seen hints since way back in Fallout 1 the 1911 got replaced by the 10mm pistol as the US armies side arm, so if that gun can be replaced by 2077 in the Fallout universe, so can the others.

Plus that just mean they use the same gun for 200 years, and I doubt the Marines are that stupid.

I know I was just using it as an example of a gun staying in service for over a 100 years in real life. So a fictional universe stretching that to 200 is not out of the question considering all the other liberties taken with arms are armorment.

(For example in F3 why can a .45 ACP round deal damage to power armor that can stop/take a hit from a freaking GAUSS RIFLE and keep on trucking.... Two totally different orders of magnitude of projectile speed and impact there.)

I think it would be out of the question, and luckily Beth seems to think so too, judging by the original gun designs.

Its one of thoes things that If it works ...

Serioiusly the Maw Duce and the .50BMG round was designed back in 33 despite the fact that almost every Country in NATO has been trying for years to replace both at one point or another since at least 1947.

To be fair the Current Russian KORD with its current ammo is roughly equal to it, and if Russa ever decided to finaly switch to a more modern grain gunpowder (with similar loading to the current Issue ammo) similar to whats used in current NATO ammo it would get far better performance, but currently for whatever reason they don't. (despite being able to switch over fairly quickly, they already EXPORT a modern grain fast powder because its used currently in light AA guns (To be fair, one problem is that they would have to upgrade/replace most of the other infantry weapons currently in use due to higher recoil and-or operating pressures if they switched over, despite tests indicating that the KORD was basically designed to use a higher pressure loading than what they currently use in the first place, or it may simply be a desire to keep the recoil down for bi-pod use, or it just may be traditional Military Conservatism at work)