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128 Thompson Machine Gun Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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Thompson submachine gun, also called 'Tommy Gun', 'Trench Broom', 'Trench Sweeper', 'Chicago Typewriter', 'Chicago Piano', 'Chicago Style', 'Chicago...

Thompson submachine gun

Drummer Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson of The group MC5 poses with an assault rifle in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan.

Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson

New York, NY: A side car equipped with a radio receiving apparatus and a newly invented police automatic rifle weighing but seven pounds and firing...

Policemen in Motorcycle Sidecar with Rifle

Lieutenant William Shoemacher stands and aims a Thompson machine gun, or tommy gun, Chicago, 1926. The gun, developed for World War I, was very...

French soldiers manning a machine gun in Marne, during World War I, circa 1915. They are wearing the distinctive Adrian helmet.

French Machine Gunners

Marine tankers, one armed with the Thompson 1928A1 submachine gun with drum magazine from the 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division of the United...

World War Two: The Pacific 1942

British infantrymen training with Thompson submachine guns, circa 1940.

Tommy-Gun Tommies

The decoration of US war heroes takes place in New York Town Hall, under the auspices of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Club of New York, 6th April 1923....

Photo caption accompanying a March 22 Style article about a museum exhibition of Thompson submachine guns misidentified a granddaughter of the gun's...

CORRECTION PUBLISHED 03/24/2004: A photo caption accompanyin

Machine gun inventor John Thompson's great granddaughter Juliet Gross, grand daughter Lyn Kirby, and great grand daughter Lyn Kirby inspect one of...

(l to R) Machine gun inventor John Thompson's great granddau

Soldiers from the 1st French Army in 1940 uniform in December 1944, with leg bands and Adrian helmets from the 1st World War. Their weapons are...

CAMPAGNE D'ALSACE 1944 : SOLDATS DE LA PREMIERE ARMEE FRANCAISE

Chinese gunners observing a new machine gun, drawing by Ferdinand Bassot from a photograph by Thomson, from Beijing and North China, by T Choutze...

Chinese gunners observing a new machine gun

Bren Gun Carrier seen here taking part in Army exercises in Northern England Circa 1941.

A Bren Gun Carrier

Bren Gun Carrier seen here taking part in Army exercises in Northern England Circa 1941.

A Bren Gun Carrier

Portrait of Erwin H. Kubath, Charles H. Andrews, Coroner Dr. Herman Bundeson, and Detective Sergeant Pat Roche standing together over a desk where...

Investigating A Moran Shooting

Man points to bullet holes on the automobile of Edward "Spike" O'Donnell in Chicago, Illinois, 1925. Frank McFarlane, a Capone ally and O'Donnell...

Bullets On The South Side

The rock group MC5 perform live at the Ford Auditorium in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan.

MC 5 Live In Detroit

The rock group MC5 pose for a photo in front of an American flag in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan.

The rock group MC5 pose for a photo in 1969 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They are all wearing White Panther Party pins.

The rock group MC5 pose for a photo in 1969 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They are all wearing White Panther Party pins.

The rock group MC5 perform live in 1969 in Mount Clemens, Michigan.

MC 5 Live In Mount Clemens

The rock group MC5 perform live at West Park in 1968 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

MC 5 Live In Ann Arbor

The rock group MC5 perform live at West Park in 1969 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

MC 5 Live In Ann Arbor

The rock group MC5 pose for a photo in 1969 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tyner and Davis are wearing White Panther Party pins.

The rock group MC5 perform live at West Park in 1968 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

MC 5 Live In Ann Arbor

German soldiers carrying their machine guns on their backs during World War I, circa 1915.

German Machine Guns

Machine gun regiment of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers after the World War I Battle of St Eloi, just south of Ypres, April 1916. They are using...

Vickers machine gun on a tripod, circa 1912.

Vickers Machine Gun

British Grenadier guardsman aiming a Thompson sub-machine gun, which is mounted on his motorcycle, circa 1940.

Motorcycle Machine-Gunner

German machine gun battery carries out war manoeuvres from a concealed redoubt, 1912.

German soldiers transport machine guns to the trenches in the Aisne region of northern France during World War I, circa 1918.

German machine gun unit in Darkehmen, East Prussia, , during World War I, circa 1916.

Darkehman Conflict

German machine gun division with six captured Russian guns at Tirlancourt during World War I, circa 1916.

German soldiers with a mounted machine gun in France during World War I, circa 1916.

Mounted Machine Gun

German soldiers operate a captured Russian anti-aircraft machine gun in a field near Tirlancourt during World War I, circa 1916.

German soldiers carry a machine gun to its position in the trenches near Rheims during World War I, circa 1916.

German Machine Gun

Clandestine site on the hills behind Guajira coast of Colombia, where marijuana dealers put the marijuana into sacks, circa 1990. Here, one of them...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is shown an American Thompson submachine gun during an inspection of coastal fortifications and defences on...

Churchill Shown Tommy Gun

Marine LCpl. Matt Thompson from St. Louis, Missouri, mans a machine gun near the American Embassy February 5, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq . The platoon of...

Marines Secure U.S. Embassy In Baghdad

Marine LCpl. Matt Thompson from St. Louis, Missouri, mans a machine gun near the American Embassy February 5, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq . The platoon of...

Marines Secure U.S. Embassy In Baghdad

Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson, of legendary Detroit group MC5, performs at the Camden Underworld on December 7, 2006 in London, England. The three...

DKT/MC5 Perform At The Camden Underworld

Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson, of legendary Detroit group MC5, performs at the Camden Underworld on December 7, 2006 in London, England. The three...

DKT/MC5 Perform At The Camden Underworld

In a motorcycle sidecar, a police officer balances a radio set on his lap and aims a Thompson submachine gun during the weapon's test trials,...

Demonstration Test For Thompson Machine Gun

Lieutenant Chief William Shoemacher aiming a Thompson machine gun, Chicago, Illinois, 1926.

Lieutenant Chief William Schoemacher Aiming A Thompson Machine Gun

Northern Ireland, Londonderry: A three-year-old boy holding up a plastic model of a Thompson submachine gun.

GBR, Northern Ireland, Londonderry: A three-year-old boy holding up a plastic model of a Thompson submachine gun.

While crowds wave Union Jack flags a re-enactment soldier shows a youngster wearing a WW2 costume how to use a Thompson sub-machine gun - remembering...

UK - London - VE Day anniversary celebrations

Gangster holds a Thompson "Tommy Gun" submachine gun.

Gangster Holding a Tommy Gun

Movie still of two bank robbers firing off rounds from the back of their getaway car. One of the men has his Thompson machine gun disguised in a golf...

Bank Robbers Shooting from Automobile

Sgt. J. J. Percoski of Somers, Connecticut, the instructor in an Armed Forces School is shown here dressed and equipped for combat with a...

Sergeant Riding a Motorcycle with His Army Students

Herbert Wheatfell of Houston, Texas, checks dead VC body after he shot him to death and held Thompson 45 Automatic Weapon.

American Soldiers Near The Vietnam Dead

Photo of General John T. Thompson demonstrating to an interested crowd of officials his new invention, the anti-bandit gun, an automatic rifle...

John Thompson Holding Machine Gun

The Cutts compensator, a new invention for the Thompson sub machine gun, keeps the bullets aimed at the target rather than spattering around from the...

Improved Thompson Machine Gun

Ballistic forensic holds a Colt-Thompson machine gun at the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie , on May 19, 2015 in Pontoise,...

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Browning machine gun for anti-aircraft work during World War One, Chaumont, France, circa 1914-1918.

Soldiers of the original machine gun company in action during World War One, France, circa 1914-1918.

Troops of the machine gun squad, marching along 2nd Avenue in a victory parade following World War One, New York City, circa 1918-1919.

Photograph of a Thompson Machine Gun and a pair of Colt .45 pistols, circa 1900s.

Thomspon 'Tommy' Machine Gun & Colt .45 Pistols

Photograph of the 1921 model of the Thompson Machine Gun , circa 1921.

Thompson 'Tommy' Machine Gun

Regimental Sergeant Major giving instruction on the Thompson sub-machine gun to N.C.O.'s of the Newcastle Home Guard. 29th May 1941

Newcastle Home Guard, 1941

Dudley Brown, president of National Association for Gun Rights, wears a pin of a Thompson submachine gun on his lapel, outside of the Old State...

The House Judiciar Committee hears testimony on House Bill 24-1292.

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