Tommy gun

Example Sentences

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The time is 1929, a time of bootleggers and Tommy guns, and Velma has, as they used to say, done her man wrong.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s no Tommy gun showdown with the killer in this story, no chase through tunnels or urban alleys and no triumphant clacking of handcuffs on the wrists of a guilty maniac.

From New York Times

Being self-schooled in deception, I claimed it was a bandolier of bullets for my plastic Tommy gun.

From Los Angeles Times

The crucial role of flip phones seems to put us in a more or less recent past, though the prevalence of Tommy guns and vintage hot rods argues for something further back.

From New York Times

In the 1930s, the violence by the notorious gangsters was fueled by Thompson submachine guns, or Tommy guns, that fired up to 600 rounds of bullets in a minute.

From Washington Post