Auto-Ordnance Corporation
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Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the United States Army Ordnance Department in 1916. Auto-Ordnance is best known for the Thompson submachine gun, used as a military weapon by the Allied forces in World War II, and also notorious as a gangster weapon used during the Roaring Twenties.
Thompson Model 1921 with Type C 100-round drum magazine
John T. Thompson
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John Taliaferro Thompson was a United States Army officer best remembered as the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.
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Thompson's J.T.T inspector mark on a Colt Philippine Model of 1902 DA Revolver
General John T. Thompson holding an M1921