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Thompson Submachine Gun

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:04.797Z

Spent some time this week going down a rabbit hole on the Thompson, and there's more to unpack here than just the gangster mythology most people stop at. Thompson envisioned a "one-man, hand-held machine gun" — a weapon with a high rate of fire that didn't need range or accuracy, because inside a trench you were never going to shoot very far anyway. That's essentially the same design philosophy behind every modern PDW and SBR on the market today. The requirement didn't change — the metallur...

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Thompson Submachine Gun

The Thompson submachine gun — known variously as the "Tommy gun," the "Chicago Typewriter," the "Chicago Organ Grinder," and the "trench broom" — is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun chambered in .45 ACP. Invented by Brigadier Genera

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