If the thought of chewing through a thirty-round stick in full-auto while steel BBs rip through soda cans pegs your fun-meter ...

Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who was awarded a medal “for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service as chief of the small arms division of the office of the chief of ordnance,” was the ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Tommy gun with strap. Postal Inspectors were the first law enforcement agency to use the Tommie gun for fighting ...

It’s rare when a gun is truly mysterious and we can’t answer why it was made, who used it, or why it succeeded or failed. Today’s case is more bizarre... I often run across curious weapons from around ...

Former Idaho State Museum director Ken Swanson explains some of the Thompson submachine guns, or “Tommy guns,” on display at the J. Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise.

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

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 ...

The Thompson SMG, used by gangsters, lawmen, and WWII troops, has origins tied to the Cutts Compensators and Marine Corps Colonel Victor Bleasdale. The compensator, designed by Richard Cutts Sr.

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 ...