Tommy
Karen Blumenthal · 2015
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About the book
John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade and eighty years before the mass shootings of our own time Congress moved to take this weapon off the streets, igniting a national debate about gun control.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Editions
- 6
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN
- 9781626720848
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