As World War II developed, engineers found ways to simplifying the Thompson submachine gun, and later M1 and M1A1 Thompsons were easier and less-expensive to produce.

The ‘Tommy Gun’ was not the first submachine gun or the first automatic weapon for that matter. The Germans invented the Bergman MP18, with a 32-round snail drum , in 1918. But the Thompson ...

Recently, I was looking at old and odd guns and stumbled across the M2. ... The M1 Thompson had been a good submachine gun in the 1920s, but by WWII it was slightly outdated.

The Thompson submachine gun used in the shooting death of Assistant State’s Attorney William McSwiggin, in April 1926. McSwiggin, who was known as the “hanging prosecutor” because of his ...

The Ukraine war has shown that some very old designs can still be used. Machine guns from a century ago, bolt action rifles older than that, submachine guns designed for WW2, anti-tank rifles as ...

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 ...

A 72-year-old man fatally shot 11 people ... Luna said the gun was a semi-automatic 9 mm MAC-10, which is a civilian type of pistol based on a fully automatic military-use submachine gun.