A federal appeals court in New York has rejected challenges to a ban on assault weapons that Connecticut put in place after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court ...

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 ...

Without Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson, inventor of the "Tommy gun," would be all but forgotten.