GANGSTER GUN
DEATH OF INVENTOR Inventor of the “Tommy” gun, Colonel J. T. Thompson has died at Great Neck, New York, aged 79, states the United States representative of a London journal. This sub-machine gun was used by rebels in Ireland during the trouble after the 1914-18 war, has been extensively employed by American gangsters, and has lately been carried by German parachutists. The official title of the gun in Britain is the B.S.A. Thompson self-loading rifle; with it a man can fire_ up to 35 deliberately-aimed shots a minute, and during the last war it won for its inventor a prize of £3,000 offered by trie British Government for a ‘light automatic loading ” rifle. Now the output of the Thompson Automatic Gim Company in America is being scut to Britain.
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Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 2
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131GANGSTER GUN Evening Star, Issue 23677, 10 September 1940, Page 2
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