This article, "The First Thompsons," appeared originally in the February 2006 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page and select American Rifleman as ...
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 France in 1944.
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15 submachine guns that turned soldiers into legends during WWII
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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 ...
If you answered the legendary M1911-A1 single-action semiautomatic pistol, you’d be partially correct. If you answered the “Tommy Gun,” more specifically the Auto-Ordnance M1928 and M1 Thompson ...
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