Despite some security and military use, the Thompson soon found popularity amongst the gangsters of the Prohibition era and, equally, in the police forces charged with taking them down.It was the creation of one General John Taliaferro Thompson (December 31st, 1860 - June 21st, 1940) who started work on early forms as early as 1917.Since then, the weapon system went on to make its mark in the Prohibition era (fighting for both gangsters and police forces alike), found tremendous combat successes in World War 2 and saw use in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, the Korean War, the 1st Indochina War, the Vietnam War, the Chinese Civil War and the Bosnian War to name a few conflicts.Some 1.7 million copies of this fine weapon have been produced with production beginning in 1921 and continuing to this day.
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