Among the nearly 1,700 guns turned in at this weekend's gun buyback program was an old looking thompson submachine gun, finds Jason Kandel over at the Daily News' Mean Streets blog. It was "made ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During World War I, machine guns were ...

Eugene Reising, and assistant to the famed American weapon designer, initially designed the M50. His submachine gun design was in many ways superior to the Thompson. It was lighter, weighing a paltry ...

A vintage 1928 Navy Thompson submachine gun sold to a gun dealer by the Luzerne County Sheriff’s Department garnered the current market price, an expert in the field said on Tuesday. Tracie Hill, a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The first U.S. government customer was actually the United States Postal Inspection Service and the weapon was carried by agents to protect mail on trains and in ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Tommy gun with strap. Postal Inspectors were the first law enforcement agency to use the Tommie gun for fighting ...

There are many outstanding firearms developed during World War II, but none combined down-to-basics simplicity with the cost-cutting frugality of the Sten gun. The necessity that mothered this ...

The Apache Arms carbine was a late-1960s Thompson SMG lookalike produced in small numbers as the successor to the Spitfire carbine after the IRS deemed the Spitfire a machine gun. Chambered in .45 ACP ...

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After some fits and starts, the Army submachine gun program has reached its next phase as officials have selected the six companies they want to provide guns for consideration. The program caught ...