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On the subject of firearms American, Brigadier General John T. Thompson was the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, the iconic “Tommy gun.”He was a true mechanical genius. He’s sometimes compared to Peter Paul Mauser, but Browning was on a whole different level. Such a range of rifles, shotguns, and pistols is unprecedented. That his designs are still popular and arguably still the best engineered 150 years after he designed them is amazing.
This 1940 photo of British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill holding an M1928 Tommy gun,
helped cement its namesake inventor’s reputation.