Yet out of a Tommy Gun, it’s very tame, as the heavier weight and longer barrel go a long way in tamping down recoil; the first time I fired one—the semiauto-only M1927 carbine version—back ...

The notorious "Tommy Gun" of Roaring '20s gangster fame, also renowned as the Thompson submachine gun used by GIs on nearly every battlefield of World War II, was born nearly a century ago in a ...

The U.S. Army went into World War II with the M1928A1 Thompson submachine gun, which fired the same .45 ACP round as the M1911A1 pistol. Towards the end of the war the Thompson was supplemented by ...