On Valentine’s Day 1929, four men connected with Al Capone’s Chicago gang killed seven rivals with Thompson machine guns, better known as Tommy guns. The bloody massacre shocked the nation, making ...

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The gun’s alternate moniker was the “Chicago Typewriter” — the rapidly fired bullets echoing the click, clack of typing. The Thompson submachine gun was smaller and thus an easier to use version of a ...

The Thompson submachine gun and the M3 submachine gun, two classic submachine guns (SMGs), helped American GIs win World War ...

Click to open image viewer. Tommy gun with strap. Postal Inspectors were the first law enforcement agency to use the Tommie gun for fighting criminals. The Thompson is an American submachine gun, ...

Marquist Evans was standing at the counter of a 7-Eleven on the West Side when two men rolled up in a Jeep and began firing at the car he was in moments earlier, federal authorities say. Evans pushed ...

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VALPARAISO -- Sixty-seven years ago, legendary gangster John Dillinger stormed into banks and peppered the ceilings with bullets from a Thompson machine gun belonging to the Porter County police -- a ...

What can be said about this SMG that hasn’t already been said? Due to its classic, aesthetically pleasing, old-school craftsmanship and pop culture sheen (The Godfather, the original 1932 version of ...