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

According the book, Tommy gun 5878 was purchased and shipped to the Peru Police Department in 1929, along with a second Tommy gun with the serial number 7117.

From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2016

That poster on the wall of Winston Churchill, clenching a cigar, clutching a Tommy gun?

From Washington Post