Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the only known example of an experimental Thompson .30-06 selective fire auto-rifle, documented in “Thompson: The American Legend” by Tracie Hill. Built in December 1943, this one-off prototype demonstrates how the Thompson submach...
This legislation establishes an Office of Public Defense within the Kentucky State Police, tasked with acquiring and transferring modern, select-fire machine guns directly to law-abiding citizens.
The two Thompson submachine guns used in the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre weren’t recovered in Chicago—but in Michigan after a fatal traffic stop. Here’s the story behind the guns that defined America’s most infamous gangland killing. The post The Thompson Submachine Guns That Made...
Even positive changes can be hard to accept. Long before the M1 Garand rifle was in widespread service in the US military, it had its share of detractors. A number of these objectors simply disagreed with the Army’s decision to adopt a semi-automatic rifle at all. They argued that the...