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1920 – Perfected in this year, the Thompson submachine gun, or the "Tommy Gun", aka, "the Chicago typewriter", became the weapon of choice for at least some of the city's mobster gangs. The Saltis–McErlane Gang was the first to use this gun in Chicago. [55] [56]
The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the " Tommy gun ", " Chicago typewriter ", or " trench broom ") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918. It was designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare of World War I, although ...
Belly (film) Belly. (film) Belly is a 1998 American crime drama film written and directed by music video director Hype Williams, in his feature film directing debut. [ 3][ 4] Filmed in New York City, the film stars rappers Nas and DMX in their film debut, alongside Taral Hicks, Method Man, T-Boz and an uncredited cameo from Sean Paul. [ 5][ 6]
The year after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, police raided the Michigan home of gangster Fred Burke, left, and seized a small cache of weapons, including two Tommy guns used in the ...
Portugal’s colonial past in Africa continues to haunt some of the country’s most vital and subversive filmmakers. With his remarkable second feature “Tommy Guns,” Angolan-Portuguese ...
EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has struck a deal with Paris-based sales firm Wide for North American distribution rights to Carlos Conceição’s Locarno Film Festival war drama Tommy Guns. The pic will ...
AG Care was founded in 1989, by Lotte Davis, a South African-born graphic designer and her husband John Davis, a hairdresser from Liverpool, in their North Vancouver basement. [ 3][ 5][ 6] The Davises began to formulate and manufacture their own professional hair care products, which they sold to salons directly beginning in 1990. [ 3][ 7] In ...
Tommy Gunn (actor) Ames, Iowa, U.S. New Jersey. Thomas Joseph Strada (born May 13, 1967), better known by his stage name Tommy Gunn, is an American pornographic actor and director. He has made several mainstream appearances, including an episode of Entourage and music videos for Buckcherry and Rilo Kiley. In 2016, Gunn was inducted into the AVN ...