NEW PHILADELPHIA On Sept. 11, the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office will be auctioning off a piece of its history — a Thompson Model 1921 machine gun that was purchased by former Sheriff Abe ...

One of those two guns, a Colt Model 1921 Thompson, is part of the catalog of the Rock Island Auction Company’s Premiere Firearms Auction which will take place from November 30 to December 2, 2018.

NEW PHILADELPHIA — The bidding started at $40,000, and went sky high from there. The prize? A Thompson Model 1921 submachine gun that was purchased by the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office on … ...

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY BRAD ROGERSSheriff Brad Rogers holds the 1921 Thompson submachine gun previously owned by the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department. CONTRIBUTED BY SHERIFF BRAD ROGERSCapt.

A rare 1921 Thompson “Tommy” machine gun will be sold at auction. For decades, the gun was locked up in Jenkins City Hall. It was bought by Consolidation Coal Company, which built the city of ...

A rare 1921 Thompson “Tommy” machine gun will be sold at auction. For decades, the gun was locked up in Jenkins City Hall.

JENKINS, Ky. (AP) -- A city in eastern Kentucky is auctioning a 1921 Thompson submachine gun to raise money for its police department. According to the Associated Press and WMYT, Jenkins Mayor ...