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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 ...
The Buffalo Arms bolt in this original M3 is dated January 1944. The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. [ 12] The M3 was chambered for the same .45 ACP round fired by the Thompson submachine gun, but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter ...
Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the United States Army Ordnance Department in 1916. [ 1] Auto-Ordnance is best known for the Thompson submachine gun, used as a military weapon by the Allied forces in World War II, and also notorious as a gangster weapon used during the Roaring Twenties .
That created a limited supply of legal machine guns, putting prices far beyond the reach of most. In 2022, The Trace reported that basic models of machine guns can cost $10,000 online, but ...
M2 Hyde. The Hyde-Inland M2 was a United States submachine gun design submitted for trials at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February 1941. Work was undertaken by General Motors Inland Manufacturing Division to develop workable prototypes of George Hyde 's design patented in 1935 ( U.S. patent 2049776A ). The model first submitted for trials in ...
Distinguished Service Medal. Other work. Auto-Ordnance Corporation founder. John Taliaferro ( Italian pronunciation: [taljaˈfɛrro]) (anglicized to "Tolliver" [ 1 ]) Thompson (December 31, 1860 – June 21, 1940) was a United States Army officer best remembered as the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun .
A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").
35, 71-round magazine. Most widely used Soviet submachine gun. PPS-42 / PPS-43: Submachine gun: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Soviet Union: 35-round magazine. Thompson M1928A1: Submachine gun.45 ACP United States: 20, 30, 50-round magazine. 137,790 supplied by the United States during the Lend-Lease program. M50 Reising: Submachine gun.45 ACP United States