Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
- ISBN-10
- 1626720851
- ISBN-13
- 9781626720855
- Series
- Tommy
- Category
- Young Adult Nonfiction
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-30
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Author
- Karen Blumenthal
Description
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.
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