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From gangster Tommy guns to Glock switches: The history of machine guns on U.S. streets

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, making ...
Stars and Stripes

The ‘Tommy gun’ was designed for the military, but Chicago gangsters made it notorious

CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — 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.
The National Interest

Foul Play Brought the Thompson SMG to the Marine Corps

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. and ...
The Pantagraph

‘Tommy gun’ designed for soldiers, made notorious by Chicago gangsters

The gun’s alternate moniker was the “Chicago Typewriter” — the rapidly fired bullets echoing the click, clack of typing. The Thompson submachine gun was smaller and thus an easier to use version of a ...