GUNS Magazine August 1957

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Big drum magazine of Thompson is characeristic easily seen even by infuriated mob, has strong terror effect in pacifying crowds without need for officer to fire a shot. Tommy gun is much heavier than necessary, is obsolete by modem standards. FAST COMMUNICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC POLICE METHODS MAKE . ... AS AUTOMOBILE STOPPERS AND FOR SEIGE USE >;' w ^ Submachine gun shooting training is given to Louisiana officers who learn to handle Reising .45 "burp guns" on range.
IS THE TOMMY GUN A POLICE -- By VALMORE FORGETT, JR. How to carry Thompson concealed is demonstrated by Philadelphia Police Inspector John J. Kelly to Detective Deal as force prepares for active war on crime. ACHINE <strong>GUNS</strong> ROAR In Down-town Store!" The inch- "M high screamer headlines shocked newspaper readers with vivid memories of Prohibition days, when gang guns chopped hoods and law enforcement men alike to bloody bits. Three men died in this most recent "incident," cut down by machine gun fire in the 11th floor cashier's office of a big, busy store. Once again, the redoubtable Thompson Submachine gun had handed down its swift death penalty. But these were police guns, not gangland weapons. The men behind the guns were officers. The story? Three bandits intent on lifting some $150,000 in cash from the store vault walked into an ambush. They did not know that seven city detectives, including one machine gun specialist armed with one of Colonel Thompson's "Superior Tools For the Protection of Life and Property," were waiting for them. Newspapers said that the officers fired a warning burst over the crooks' heads. But later bursts wrecked a wastepaper basket on the floor, smashed chest high into the mahogany railing of the cashier's cage, splintered the glass elevator doors-and cut three men to ribbons. The dead bandits were armed with automatic pistols. It is a basic premise of law enforcement that the intent of the police power is to bring the law-breaker before a court of justice. This brings us face to face with the question: "Is the machine gun a proper police weapon?" My answer is, "No.'.' It is an answer based on a lifelong study of automatic weapons and law enforcement, as one of the few federally licensed dealers in operative machine weapons. In nine out of ten of the cases in which Tommy Guns have been used by police in recent years, equal results
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