Tommy : the gun that changed America / Karen Blumenthal.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781626720848
- ISBN: 1626720843
- ISBN: 9781250115409
- Physical Description: 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2015.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-222) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue. Locked and loaded -- Conception -- Trench broom -- The annihilator -- Ready, aim -- Rebellion -- The Chicago piano -- Wild tigers -- Valentines and violins -- Attack and intimidation -- The war on crime -- Cops and robbers -- Public enemies -- Recoil -- Reload -- The end of an era -- Epilogue.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1180L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.3 6 175610.
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- Thompson submachine gun > History.
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- 16 of 16 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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