That created a limited supply of legal machine guns, putting prices far beyond the reach of most. In 2022, The Trace reported that basic models of machine guns can cost $10,000 online, but ...

But a more storied use of the “Tommy gun,” as it was dubbed, was employed by minions of Capone, the nattily dressed king of the Chicago underworld in the 1920s and ’30s.

VALPARAISO -- Sixty-seven years ago, legendary gangster John Dillinger stormed into banks and peppered the ceilings with bullets from a Thompson machine gun belonging to the Porter County police -- ...

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

U.S. Army Brigadier General John Thompson invented his namesake Tommy gun in 1918, hoping it could end trench warfare during World War I. But the Tommy guns didn’t arrive before the war ended and ...