Despite what many think, the Thompson submachine gun was not the first submachine gun. But many will argue it was the best submachine gun ever put in the hands of fighting men – whether they wer ...

officer who retired a couple of years before America’s entry into that war felt that the submachine gun had the potential to be an extremely valuable arm. John Taliaferro Thompson entered the U ...

At the beginning of World War II, very few submachine guns were available to the Allied powers. One of the guns available for purchase was the M1928A1 Thompson submachine gun, but it was expensive ...

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 ...

Recently I met a man (he prefers to remain anonymous for this column) from another state who owns a 1921 Model Thompson submachine gun (TSMG). He discovered the Elkhart County Sheriff’s ...

The prize? A Thompson Model 1921 submachine gun that was purchased by the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office on May 13, 1934, and is no longer used. After several minutes of spirited bidding ...

AUBURN, Ind. – A Thompson submachine gun that John Dillinger's gang stole from a northeastern Indiana police station more than 80 years ago has been returned, finally, and will go on display.