Here’s What You Need to Remember: The first U.S. government customer was actually the United States Postal Inspection Service and the weapon was carried by agents to protect mail on trains and in ...
Eugene Reising, and assistant to the famed American weapon designer, initially designed the M50. His submachine gun design was in many ways superior to the Thompson. It was lighter, weighing a paltry ...
The Apache Arms carbine was a late-1960s Thompson SMG lookalike produced in small numbers as the successor to the Spitfire carbine after the IRS deemed the Spitfire a machine gun. Chambered in .45 ACP ...
Among the nearly 1,700 guns turned in at this weekend's gun buyback program was an old looking thompson submachine gun, finds Jason Kandel over at the Daily News' Mean Streets blog. It was "made ...
Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...
SHERIFF BRAD ROGERS LOCAL COLUMNIST Aug 4, 2017 Aug 4, 2017 I’m going to take a break from the usual question-and-answer format to share with you a piece of Elkhart County Sheriff history. Recently I ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During World War I, machine guns were ...
NEW PHILADELPHIA — The bidding started at $40,000, and went sky high from there. The prize? A Thompson Model 1921 submachine gun that was purchased by the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office on May 13, ...
Bootlegging gangsters of the 1920s and 30s firing a barrage of bullets at the G-men in pursuit-that's the mental picture you might have of the Tommy gun. But while the Thompson submachine gun was ...