Umarex Legends M1A1: The Full-Auto CO2 Replica Is as Fun as Expected

By Frank Jardim

Some things need no justification other than they are just fun. All BB guns fall into that category. The highly realistic looking, select-fire, historic replicas of the Umarex Legend BB gun series are at the extreme end of the BB gun fun curve.

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Umarex Legends M1A1

The latest addition to the Legend series is a select-fire U.S. Military, World War II, M1A1 Thompson Submachine-gun, which joins the MP40 submachine-gun and Mauser M712 machine-pistol replicas in anchoring the extreme end of the fun bell curve reserved for full-auto BB guns. I had a chance to check out and shoot the prototype at the 2019 Athlon Outdoors Rendezvous and it exceeded my rather high expectations.

For starters, the M1A1 Thompson replica looks perfect dimensionally; the safety, selector, and magazine release controls function. It’s realistically finished with …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life