The Tommy Gun: A History of the Auto Ordnance Submachine Gun

The Start of a “Trench Broom”: Early Developments The Visionary The story of the Auto Ordnance Tommy Gun begins not within the smoky backrooms of gangsters, however with a imaginative and prescient born within the trenches of World Battle I. John T. Thompson, a U.S. Military officer, envisioned a weapon that might rapidly clear entrenched … Read more

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