Commercially available Thompson submachine guns ... made in 20- and 30-round variants. "Despite all of these expediencies, There was still more that they could do, and Savage Arms really led ...

The Thompson submachine gun eventually gained a reputation ... The M1928A1 Thompson is divided into three basic variants: Serial numbers aside, the general time frame in which a M1928A1 was ...

When the words submachine gun and World War Two ... upward “kick” inherent to automatic firing. Like the Thompson, some of the M50 variants also had cooling fins milled into the barrel to ...

But while the Thompson submachine gun was designed for the trenches of World War I and gained notoriety as a gangster's weapon, it was the battlefields of World War II that saw it win its place in ...

Tom Hanks famously depicted Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan” toting his trusty Thompson submachine gun — “Tommy gun” — from the beaches of Normandy far into the interior of ...

But few know the origin of the gun’s catchy nickname. “To most U.S. cineaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangster’s weapon,” Time magazine observed on June 26, 1939. “The late ...

The Thompson submachine gun, for example, was first adopted by the Army in 1938. However, by the end of World War II, less than a decade later, it was replaced by the M3 “Grease Gun.” ...

From the iconic Thompson submachine “Tommy gun” to the versatile M1 Carbine, soldiers were equipped with new weapons that changed the face of warfare forever. (These are the most important ...

The company behind the venerable Thompson submachine gun, a favorite of both gangsters and GIs, is releasing a deluxe (semi-auto) version of the Tommy gun chambered in 9mm for public consumption.