It wasn’t the M1919 or the Thompson, but this American machine gun brought serious firepower to World War II—and flew under ...

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 ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – In the basement research lab of the agency that regulates America's firearms, two dozen 3D printers hummed, stringing thermoplastic filament into computer-designed patterns ...

“I have a Thompson machine gun and a 100-round Thompson magazine,” he said of his collection. “That’s a $7,500 magazine – very few people have one.

Machine guns were “basically outlawed in this country because of what was happening in Chicago” in the 1920s with the Thompson submachine gun — the Tommy gun — that was being used in ...