The New York herald., 1922-05-11
THREE ANTI-BANDIT
GUNS JUNK MOTOR
Automatic, Firing Shot and
Flame. Takes Minute to
Complete Job.

Three men armed with a weapon of
peculiar appearance, little larger than
horse pistol and smaller than light
rifle. yesterday afternoon at distance
OF fifty feet converted solid looking
seven passenger touring car into a
flaming mass of junk in. less than a
minute. Nothing in the machine larger
than mouse could have survived the
fusillade.
The destruction of the touring car
was part of a demonstration before
New York and New Jersey police at
the Sportsman's Service Station at
by Gen. John Taliaferro Thompson.
U. S. a., retired, and destined. accord
ing to police and army experts, to re-
form or remove bandits instantaneously.
The destruction of the automobile was
perhaps the most striking of the vari-
Gus stunts performed during the day.
The three guns. pounding out steel
jacketed AS caliber bullets at the rate
of 1000 a minute. sliced the tires off
the machine. cut through the spolxes
and chewed their way through body.
radiator. lamps, steering gear. tanks
and woodwork. Then a few incendary
bullets at the end of the burst fired
the wreck and finished its career.
A feature of the gun, which is de-
signed for both war and police use. is
the fact that the deadly as caliber
bullets may be instantly replaced by
birdshot cartridges. These latter would
not kill, but they would convince q
fleeing bandit that tho army navy and
National Guard had combined and We're
perforating him with everything they
had in the line of ordnance. This bird
shot has a range of only hundred
feet. so that IL may be used with COM
partive safety in a crowded city street.
Communities and their departments
of police can no more counteract the
organized banditry of to-day by the de-
fense and pursuit of methods of twenty
years ago than the great war could have
been won by the methods employed In
the Spanish-American war. Gen. Thomp-
sop/said This weapon changes the
odds which are now against the officers
of the law and gives them instead a
Needed advantage over the bandit"
In the course of a shooting competi-
ton among police experts of both
States young Sergt. Jack Schoonmaker
Of the Bergen county Sheriffs office,
who learned his shooting in the Ma
tional Guard. beat Sergt. C. II. Wash,
firearms expert of the metropolitan
police. and won a machine gun as the
prize. Wash put up good fight, maxi.
Ing AZ out of SO points In fifteen seconds,
Bring at silhouettes of five bandits,
while Schoonmaker made 46 I'm thirty
seconds. In the second round Schoon-
maker. getting used 10 the feel of the
gun, made 40 points in nineteen seconds,
while Wash made only AZ in the same
time. S. j. Lewis. Jersey Deputy
Sheriff, made AZ points in sixteen sec
onds, but waived his right to the prize.
Among those who witnessed the
demonstration were Deputy Police Com
missioner William Gillespie. Deputy
Chief Inspector Thomas NJ. Murphy.
c G. Young. secretary to Commissioner
Enright; Col. Edward McLeer. formerly
division machine gun officer, Twenty
seventh division. representing Gen.
organ: Capt. J. p. Cromwell. u. s.
A.. representing Gen. Bullard: II. II.
vreeland. George Il. Smith and Col.
NJ. II. Thompson.