On Valentine’s Day 1929, four men connected with Al Capone’s Chicago gang killed seven rivals with Thompson machine guns, better known as Tommy guns. The bloody massacre shocked the nation, making ...

CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth.

Bootlegging gangsters of the 1920s and 30s firing a barrage of bullets at the G-men in pursuit-that's the mental picture you might have of the Tommy gun. But while the Thompson submachine gun was ...

Imagine Chicago during Prohibition. About 2,000 speakeasies rose into business to quench many a citizen’s thirst. Gangsters ran those speakeasies; alcohol flowed at any cost. While patrons tippled and ...

The guns also became staples of Hollywood gangster movies. Included at one point in the vast arsenal held by Stembridge Gun Rentals, a shop on Paramount Pictures’ back lot, were 72 Tommy guns. The ...

Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...