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At an Auto-Ordnance board meeting in 1919, in order to discuss the marketing of the "Annihilator", with the war now over the weapon was officially renamed the "Thompson Submachine Gun". While other weapons had been developed shortly prior with similar objectives in mind, the Thompson was the first weapon to be labeled and marketed as a ...
Auto-Ordnance Corporation was created by John T. Thompson in August 1916 with the backing of investor Thomas Ryan. In 1915 Thompson had found the Blish Lock patent of Commander John Blish, which was the operating principle of the first prototypes of the Thompson submachine gun and the Thompson Autorifle. In exchange for shares of the newly ...
Thompson submachine gun: Submachine gun 1,700,000 TT pistol: Semi-automatic pistol Soviet Union: 1,700,000 SVT-38 and SVT-40: Semi-automatic rifle 1,000,000+ [112] 1,600,000 Winchester Model 1890 and 1906: Pump-action rifle United States: 1,600,000 [93] Colt Police Positive Special. and Detective Special. Revolver 1,500,000 [52] Beretta M1934 ...
Starting in the 1970s, Earl produced a popular catalog of machine guns and submachine guns “for shooter or collector,” that he sold to the public for $1 at first then up to $5 for a catalog in ...
Trials revealed the design was superior to the M1 submachine gun in mud and dirt tests, and its accuracy in full-automatic firing was better than any other submachine gun tested at the time. An improved Hyde-Inland 2 was designated U.S. Submachine gun, Caliber .45, M2 as a substitute standard for the M1 Thompson in April 1942.
A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").
The 1934 law that banned Thompson submachine guns includes language banning the devices since they fall under the definition: “Any part designed and intended solely and exclusively or ...
The United Defense M42, sometimes known as the Marlin for the company that did the actual manufacturing, was an American submachine gun used during World War II.It was produced from 1942 to 1943 by United Defense Supply Corp. for possible issue as a replacement for the Thompson submachine gun and was used by Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents. [1]