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 ...

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.

Federal law already severely restricts the sale, transfer and possession of automatic weapons, and the ATF ruled back in 1981 that possession of auto sears is the same as possession of a machine gun.

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 -- ...

Those who think there is nothing politicians can do to reduce gun violence (Letters, May 31) need to ask themselves why there has been so little violence carried out in the U.S. with full machine ...

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 ...