Every gun collector has a pet passion, a particular niche where he or she feels most at home. Gordon Herigstad’s passion was the Colt Thompson submachine gun, however, unlike most collectors ...

On Wednesday, DEA agents demonstrated the 9mm Colt submachine gun at a Miami gun range. Agents in its 11 Florida offices — including Fort Lauderdale, Miami and West Palm Beach — will get the ...

In the early 1980s, American arms giant Colt decided to toss its hat in the submachine gun ring to try and corner a slice of what it perceived to be a highly lucrative market.

Colt Model 1921 Submachine Gun. .45 caliber, dates: 1943. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY, USA; Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection, 1988.82609 Buffalo Bill Center of the ...

The guns of choice for most of these gangs was the Thompson Submachine Gun, along with the Browning and Colt Automatic Rifles. Compounding this overabundance of criminals was The Depression in ...

The submachine gun never got a real hold in World War I, soon afterward began to figure more in gang news than in Army talk. Of 15,000 Thompsons (“Tommies”) manufactured by Colt in 1921 ...

From the iconic Thompson submachine “Tommy gun” to the versatile M1 Carbine, ... Caliber and feed.45 Colt, .45 ACP, .44 Special, .38 Special; Six-shot rotating cylinder; Model 1903.

T he Thompson submachine gun and the M3 submachine gun, ... Both fired the same powerful and ever-beloved .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) cartridge as another classic firearm, the M1911 pistol.

The blue suitcase contained a Colt automatic .22 caliber long ... M3 submachine guns were first adopted by the U.S. Army during World War II and were intended to replace the popular Thompson ...

In that year, Colt designed two guns you don’t hear of these days, ... (PDWs) which fall in between rifles and submachine guns. It offered shooters a fire rate of 550 rounds per minute.