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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While difficult to imagine today, brazen armed thefts of the U.S. Mail in the 1920s became all too common and beyond the ...

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 ...

It’s rare when a gun is truly mysterious and we can’t answer why it was made, who used it, or why it succeeded or failed. Today’s case is more bizarre... I often run across curious weapons from around ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (WZZM) -- The early 1920's were a very interesting time in the United States. World War I had drawn to a close, and the country’s economy was transitioning from wartime to peacetime.

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 ...