Show SHUT OFF SALE OF GUNS TO GANGSTERS thompson arm to be confined to military use washington taught a lesson by the hundreds of gangster killings in the past six years lawmakers throughout the country are considering wa ways Ys and means of removing submachine sub machine guns from fram the underworld the first move tn in this direction has been taken by the ahe single concern man mali the te gun sale of the weapon has been forbidden except for military purposes but the damage has been done the gangsters have the gun hundreds of them and only time and unrelenting vigilance on the part of pollee police officers will serve to clean this potential source of sudden death from the haunts of the lawbreakers brig gen john T thompson Is hor her rifled at the use to which its his invention has bas been put placed on the market in 1021 1121 the guns almost immediately be gan to reach the underworld more and more imore of the guns were diverted from the legitimate trade channels into this quarter teras as the gangsters begaw to realize that here was a gun vastly superior to the automatic pistol ald other old weapons r for or ten years there was no super vision over the sale of the guns when occasion arose as it usually did after a gangland gaiD gland killing 0 of checking the ownership of a gun the quest always ended at the dealer who sold it IL in most cases fictitious names were given by iby persons who bought the kouns guns not all of the guns however were acquired by gangsters through pur champi chaspi from dealers thompson sub machine guns have aye hada bad a habit of disappearing from the hands of the police bank and industrial guards turn and other legitimate possessors I 1 and turning 4 up i with gangsters behind them that Is why the manufacturers have stopped selling to such persons person PRon in one qc ase case a fake company was organizer specifically by gangland to ob tainie tai nhe apps carload lots lota atop it op erald for pane rl months before authorities thorl ties discovered what was going OKI 1 I 1 the gang obtained the guns guna by hook hoo or r by crook jf if one state made rigid regulations for the sale of all guns as wp a number umber have habein in them the past few years athe i gangsters motored to an adjoining state baught all they wanted abere tb ere and smuggled them across the border i one of the first incidents calling attention to the use to which thomp sons invention was being placed was a mall truck robbery in elizabeth N J in october 1828 1920 eight bight gangsters armeil armed with submachine sub machine guns drove up tip to of a mall truck and without warning ingia turn praed edone one gun full on them the truck with another they laid a protective barrage across the street intersection the populace to cover the guards in ute the truck have a chance one was killed and three fell wounded the bandits fled abandoning one gun as ag they departed with about of uncle sams money which they obtained from the truck in the sume same month ln in chicago came the weiss murder A gang loader and foe of at al capone he was shot hot down on tho the steps of a cathedral where he had taken refuge the killers fired from an upper window of an apartment across the street and weiss tell fell dead with 12 slugs in his body in such ways has the thompson sub subi i A machine gun been put to use gangsters call it a lawn mover an apt name after the weiss killing there followed a string of machine gun murders and holdups too numerous lo 10 mention the tigers were biting in the underworld jungle there la is every evidence that such weapons were and are an essential part of every e efficient clent gangsters equipment the infamous st valentines day massacre in chicago Clil cago when seven of bugs morans albrans gang were lined up against a wall and mowed down brought to light many more facts concerning the machine gun warfare among the cliques of the underworld A twenty three year old girl crula ing on a pleasure yacht at waukegan wauregan kegan ill a short time ago was shot when a machine guti gun sputtered from the shore sending her to the deck and imperiling Impe riling the lives of 19 other persons no one knows who did it no one knows why it was just another tiger icse in the jungle ou of the underworld der world |