Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, the longtime drummer of the iconic Detroit proto-punk band MC5 who earned his nickname due to his rapidfire drum style and its militant rat-tat-tat sound, has died, the ...
On Valentine’s Day 1929, four men connected with Al Capone’s Chicago gang killed seven rivals with Thompson machine guns, better known as Tommy guns. The bloody massacre shocked the nation, making ...
VALPARAISO -- Sixty-seven years ago, legendary gangster John Dillinger stormed into banks and peppered the ceilings with bullets from a Thompson machine gun belonging to the Porter County police -- a ...
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The Unstoppable U.S. WWII Machine Gun You’ve Never Heard Of
It wasn’t the M1919 or the Thompson, but this American machine gun brought serious firepower to World War II—and flew under the radar. Rugged, relentless, and brutally effective, it played a key role ...
Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...
currently on parole, approached a confidential witness last month and asked that he/she convert two non-working Thompson machine guns into working ones. Tanis also provided the witness with a ...
In 2013, a company called Slide Fire Solutions introduced a device called a “bump stock” that enabled a semi-automatic assault rifle to behave like a fully automatic one — dancing around the ...
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