The Thompson submachine gun and the M3 submachine gun, two classic submachine guns (SMGs), helped American GIs win World War ...

The .45 caliber submachine gun M3 is often indicated as being a success story of small arms design and development during World War II. Born of the necessities and exigencies of a full national ...

From battlefields in World War II to gang wars in the U.S., the infamous Thompson submachine gun has a lot of history behind it.

World War II saw the development of some fine —and arguably not so fine—small arms. In the category of the submachine gun, the United States military had its Thompson, the Germans had the MP40 ...

The U.S. Army wasn’t particularly impressed with the concept of a submachine gun, ... Indeed, the Colts were sufficient to meet the demand for Thompsons until the eve of World War II.

The unprepossessing STEN gun was produced at half the price of an American M3 “grease gun” and some 20 times less than a Thompson submachine gun during World War II.

While the North Vietnamese did not have a full-fledged weapons industry, they did have the engineering capacity to create a submachine gun for the fight to come by combining elements of the Type ...

The notorious "Tommy Gun" of Roaring '20s gangster fame, also renowned as the Thompson submachine gun used by GIs on nearly every battlefield of World War II, was born nearly a century ago in a ...

The APC9K is the first new submachine gun for the U.S. Army since the M3 “Greasegun” of World War II. The service will buy 350 of the compact automatic weapons for $2.5 million, with an option ...