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Thompson submachine gun

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Thompson submachine gun [′täm·sən ¦səb·mə′shēn ‚gən]
(ordnance)
Caliber-.45, air-cooled automatic weapon that can be carried and operated by one person.


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Consider that a Thompson submachine gun fires 18 bullets per second.
He also showed what it's like to stare down the barrel of a reconstructed, but inoperable, 1921 Thompson submachine gun.
In the apartment of Dennis Voshall, they said they found a semiautomatic Thompson submachine gun - the ``Tommy gun'' of World War II and gangster movies - plus five other guns, computer equipment, two-way radios, cellular phones and other items believed to be stolen.
 
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