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The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the " Tommy gun ", " Chicago typewriter ", or " trench broom ") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918. It was designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare of World War I, although ...
Tommy guns were the first machine guns used by gangsters and new gun laws first took these weapons off the street. Now, machine guns have re-emerged with illegal Glock switches, tiny devices that ...
The Buffalo Arms bolt in this original M3 is dated January 1944. The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. [12] The M3 was chambered for the same .45 ACP round fired by the Thompson submachine gun, but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter ...
"Tommy Gun" is a song by the British punk rock band The Clash, released as the first single from their second album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978). Background [ edit ]
A weapon that vastly exceeds the killing power of the Tommy guns banned in the 1930s is affordable and freely accessible. This is not freedom. It’s the unraveling of the American promise of ...
Auto-Ordnance Corporation. Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the United States Army Ordnance Department in 1916. [1] Auto-Ordnance is best known for the Thompson submachine gun, used as a military weapon by the Allied forces in World War II, and also notorious as a gangster weapon used ...
For a very limited time, Mafia Wars is offering a Lonely Heart Tommy gun for 25 Reward Points. The red and white guns will deliver 38 Attack and 20 Defense, which is a fairly high-powered weapon ...
Società Anonima Revelli Manifattura Armiguerra. 9×19mm Parabellum. Italian Social Republic. 1943. SMG. Arsenal submachine gun. Arsenal. 9×20 mm SR Browning. Estonia.