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, making ...

Tom Hanks famously depicted Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan” toting his trusty Thompson submachine gun — “Tommy gun” — from the beaches of Normandy far into the interior of France in 1944.

Designed for the trenches of World War I, deadly in the hands of American gangsters, redeemed on the battlefields of World War II. Such is the history of the The M1 Thompson, the first self-described ...

Eickhoff, the man who engineered the gun, was no fan of its sudden popularity among hoodlums, according to his daughter, Betsy Hanak, of Concord Township. She recalled that her father rarely talked ...

The Thompson submachine gun became notorious when it was used by Chicagoland gangsters in the infamous “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre” in 1929. The gun struck such fear into the general... Here’s ...

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The New York company that still makes the submachine gun once favored by Chicago’s most famous gangsters is turning to the federal court that convicted Al Capone to protect its turf against a west ...

At least one Tesla Cybertruck has endured some Al Capone-style bulletproof testing, CEO Elon Musk claimed last week on X, after a video emerged where the truck looked like it had been pelted with ...

When most companies are about to pay a dividend, they announce the event at least ten days beforehand, thus permitting brokerage-house cashiers to check up, make sure all stockholders are properly ...

In this video, we go magnet fishing at an old bridge known for past discoveries, including a previously found machine gun.