Bibliograph

Tommy, The Gun That Changed America., Karen Blumenthal

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Tommy, The Gun That Changed America., Karen Blumenthal

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1180, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tommy

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 8 - Text Difficulty 10

Responsibility statement

Karen Blumenthal

Sub title

The Gun That Changed America.

Summary

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

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