01918cam a2200349 i 4500 292462454 TxGeo 20170518120000.0 150115s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014040642 9781626720848 1626720843 (OCoLC)900558526 TxGeo rda Blumenthal, Karen. Tommy : the gun that changed America / Karen Blumenthal. First edition. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2015. 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index. 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. 20160502. Tayshas High School Reading List​, 2016. Gangsters. Robbers and outlaws. Thompson submachine gun History. Tayshas High School Reading List 2016. QS5