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 ...

After the War, General Thompson set himself the task of perfecting a one-man machine gun and a self-loading infantry rifle.

William Shoemaker of the Chicago Police Department aims a Thompson machine gun, or tommy gun, in Chicago in 1926. The gun, developed for World War I, was very popular with gangsters due to its ...

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 ...