A man said to be a gang member was shot dead by police, and a submachine gun seized during an incident at Bolivar View in New ...

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 ...

In 1941 the US Military began looking for an alternative for the Thompson submachine guns. In December of 1942 they adopted a new submachine gun, the M3. Built from an all steel construction using ...

From a historical significance and nostalgia standpoint, the Thompson was the very first true SMG named for its inventor, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. John Taliaferro Thompson, who had intended the weapon ...

The Thompson submachine gun became notorious when it was used by Chicagoland gangsters in the infamous “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre” in 1929. The gun struck such fear into the general ...