The Thompson submachine gun eventually gained a reputation as a ... the Cutts Compensator and the horizontal fore-end, the M1928 U.S. Navy Thompson retained the same features found on the ...

The famous .45 ACP Thompson M1928 submachine gun, equipped with a 50-round drum magazine. NARA. “They were good guns, especially for the man who couldn’t shoot. And although they were much ...

The War Office eagerly purchased every M1928 it could ... of GIs and the military considered the Thompson obsolete. Today, Thompson submachine guns are in high demand among collectors legally ...

If you answered the “Tommy Gun,” more specifically the Auto-Ordnance M1928 and M1 Thompson submachine gun (SMG), again, you’d be partially correct. >If you answered the M3 “Grease Gun ...

The weapon was redesignated the M1928, and one of the improvements ... was slowed in favor of the simpler, cheaper M3 submachine gun. The Thompson submachine gun saw further use in Korea and ...

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 ...