Tommy gun
Example Sentences
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Roughly midway through, Pynchon’s characters hightail it all the way to proto-fascist Budapest, where shadows more lethal than any Tommy gun begin to encroach.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025
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 • Sep. 6, 2022
Among the firearms he owns are several fully automatic weapons, including a Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun, and a Model 50 Reising submachine gun.
From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2016
Realism was the goal, whether the manufacturer was trying to copy the cowboys’ favorite revolver or a World War II Tommy gun.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2014
It is not clear how or when the department acquired the one newer Tommy gun.
From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2014
