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In 1938, the Thompson submachine gun was adopted by the U.S. military and was used during World War II. There were two military types of Thompson submachine gun: The M1928A1 , which had provisions for both box and drum magazines, utilized the Cutts muzzle brake, had cooling fins on the barrel , and employed a delayed blowback action with the ...
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.
The M3 became the main submachine gun over the Thompson for the U.S. and South Korean forces during the Korean War, because the Communists used the Thompson submachine gun, which the U.S. donated during World War II, as one of their main weapons during the war. [24] The M3 and M3A1 were largely withdrawn from U.S. frontline service beginning in ...
In the backyard was a concrete bunker, complete with bank vault door, and the walls were lined with 250 or more Thompson submachine guns. This 1883 Gatling gun, which Curtis Earl picked up from ...
Thompson submachine gun (France ordered 3000 Thompsons due to shortages of SMGs during invasion. Used by French Liberation Army) [180] [177] [176] [181] MP 18 (Some were in inventory in 1939. Limited use) [46] Suomi K/P-31 (150 SMGs seized from surrendering Republicans after the Spanish civil war) [182] Sten submachine gun (British aid)
Sten submachine gun ; Thompson M1928A1 ; Type 36 submachine gun (M3 copy, PVA) Type 49 submachine gun (PPSh-41 copy) Type 50 submachine gun (PPSh-41 copy) Machine guns
The M1944 Hyde sub-machine gun came with an uncommon quick-change barrel system. The bolt is similar to the Solothurn MP-34, where the spring is contained within the buttstock. Photos of the Hyde gun appeared in the first edition of The World’s Assault Rifles by Daniel Musgrave and Thomas B. Nelson, published in 1967. No known examples of the ...
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 ...