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A fast 15 minute primer on the ‘Chicago Typewriter’ (VIDEO)

Ahoy covers the backstory, design and use of the Thompson submachine gun with a special emphasis on film and game cameos, arguing it is the all-American SMG.

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That sure is a funny looking ‘Tommy Gun’ you have there

Police and reporters in one Iowa town apparently can't tell the difference between an American-made Chicago Typewriter and a Soviet burp gun.

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100th anniversary of Chicago Typewriter observed with boxed set

Auto-Ordnance is offering a boxed set of two classics, the Chicago Typewriter, AKA Tommy Gun, and a 1911 pistol, in observation of the Tommy Gun’s 100-year anniversary.

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Two cities square off in custody battle over Dillinger’s Tommy gun (VIDEO)

The Tuscon Police Department since 1934 has been holding on to a Thompson submachine gun they took off John Dillinger, which Peru, Indiana says was stolen from them.

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Tommy Guns now with bling

AutoOrdnance announced this week the availability of a new reproduction of the classic “Tommy Gun,” featuring gold or chrome finish.

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A peek inside the weapons vault– and its all for rent (15 pictures)

The NFA gods at Battlefield Vegas updated their vault rack system and posted a few of the images from inside one of the neatest collections of select-fire weaponry open for public use.

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Winston Churchill’s lost wartime Tommy Gun located

“I am about 80 per cent certain it is the Churchill Tommy Gun,” said military historian Clive McPherson, who has studied the famous gun's history. “No one else in the country has laid claim to having the gun.”

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