Tommy
Subtitle: the gun that changed America
By: Karen Blumenthal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781626720848
Subjects: Thompson submachine gun; Juvenile literature; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Conception; title: Trench broom; title: The annihilator; title: Ready, aim; title: Rebellion; title: The Chicago piano; title: Wild tigers; title: Valentines and violins; title: Attack and intimidation; title: The war on crime; title: Cops and robbers; title: Public enemies; title: Recoil; title: Reload; title: The end of an era.