Tommy : the gun that changed America / Karen Blumenthal.
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TextPublisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1626720843 (hardcover)
- 9781626720848 (hardcover)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. Critically-acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal tells the fascinating story of this famous and deadly weapon--of the lives it changed, the debate it sparked, and the unprecedented response it inspired.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index.
Conception -- Trench broom -- The annihilator -- Ready, aim -- Rebellion -- The Chicago piano -- Wild tigers -- Valentines and violins -- Attack and intimidation -- The war on crime -- Cops and robbers -- Public enemies -- Recoil -- Reload -- The end of an era.