Thompson submachine gun

A newly developed military weapon, the Thompson submachine gun, or tommy gun, finds an unforeseen application as the gangster s gun of choice. Its devastating firepower spurs demands for a federal gun control law. 

He drew his own gun. Except it wasn t exactly a draw— no holster. One second he wanted a gun, the next his fingers were gripping a Thompson submachine gun. He fired. And the once-familiar roar of the weapon nicknamed a trench broom hammered his ears again. A curiously white flame emerged from the barrel as he trained it on the cowering figure of the realtor, fighting the upwards kick. 

Thompson submachine gun (John T. Thompson) Thompson works with Theodore Eickhoff and Oscar Payne to invent the American version of the submachine gun. 

Some inventors who named weapons after themselves include Samuel Colt, the Colt revolver, Henry Deringer, Jr., the derringer pistol, Dr. Richard J. Gatling, the crank machine gun, Col. John T. Thompson, the submachine or tommy gun, and Oliver F. Winchester, the repeating rifle. 

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