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Tommy
The Gun That Changed America
15,29 € |
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Verlag: | Roaring Brook Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 30.06.2015 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781626720855 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 240 |
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Beschreibungen
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.