On Valentine’s Day 1929, four men connected with Al Capone’s Chicago gang killed seven rivals with Thompson machine guns, better known as Tommy guns. The bloody massacre shocked the nation ...

But a more storied use of the “Tommy gun,” as it was dubbed, was employed by minions of Capone, ... “Machine Guns Murder Novelty for Last Year,” the headline on a Jan. 1, ...

Homemade machine guns return US to the era of Al Capone and the Tommy gun. Machine guns have been tightly regulated in the US since the bloody violence of Prohibition-era gangsters like Al Capone.

Those who think there is nothing politicians can do to reduce gun violence (Letters, May 31) need to ask themselves why there has been so little violence carried out in the U.S. with full machine ...

But a more storied use of the “Tommy gun,” as it was dubbed, was employed by minions of Capone, ... “Machine Guns Murder Novelty for Last Year,” the headline on a Jan. 1, ...

Machine guns were “basically outlawed in this country because of what was happening in Chicago” in the 1920s with the Thompson submachine gun — the Tommy gun — that was being used in ...