One of the guns available for purchase was the M1928A1 Thompson ... gun was that it had this multi-component, fire-control assembly and Savage engineers found out, 'Well, hey, if you just machine ...

Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, the longtime drummer of the iconic Detroit proto-punk band MC5 who earned his nickname due to his rapidfire drum style and its militant rat-tat-tat sound ...

The gun in question was the notorious Thompson machine gun, and the time was the 1920s. Developed for trench warfare in World War I, the Tommy gun—a fully automatic weapon, though it could also ...

The Thompson submachine gun was smaller and thus an easier to use version of a much larger machine gun in use at the time. Two soldiers were needed to operate those older weapons. The gun was ...