and later M1 and M1A1 Thompson submachine guns were easier and less-expensive to produce. Watch our "American Rifleman Television" I Have This Old Gun segment above to see the M1 Thompson in ...

To learn more about the iconic Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun, watch this "I Have This Old Gun" segment from a recent episode of American Rifleman TV.

though they did not work with the early M1A1 version. The first model was built and ready for battle by 1921. A prototype belt-fed version of the Thompson submachine gun was worked on, but the ...

The gun was five percent lighter than the Thompson and about 95 percent more reliable in mud and dust tests. The M2 was also quicker and easier to produce. The Army and Marine Corps needed lots of ...

From the iconic Thompson submachine “Tommy gun” to the versatile M1 Carbine, soldiers were equipped with new weapons that changed the face of warfare forever. (These are the most important ...

The Thompson submachine gun and the M3 submachine gun, two classic submachine guns (SMGs), helped American GIs win World War II. Both fired the same powerful and ever-beloved .45 ACP (Automatic ...

But few know the origin of the gun’s catchy nickname. “To most U.S. cineaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangster’s weapon,” Time magazine observed on June 26, 1939. “The late ...

Weary of the bootlegging wars that were a byproduct of Prohibition, the public demanded curbs on the murder weapon: the Thompson submachine gun, a.k.a. the Tommy gun. It took over five years ...

But few know the origin of the gun’s catchy nickname. “To most U.S. cineaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangster’s weapon,” Time magazine observed on June 26, 1939. “The late ...