Ultimately, the Saville Inquiry was inconclusive on Martin McGuinness's role due to a lack of certainty over his movements, concluding that while he was " engaged in paramilitary activity " during Bloody Sunday, and had probably been armed with a Thompson submachine gun, there was insufficient evidence to make any finding other than they were " sure that he did not engage in any activity that provided any of the soldiers with any justification for opening fire ".

Examples of PCCs that are derivatives of submachine guns but are rifles under Title I ( Gun Control Act ) include the HK USC ( derived from the HK. 45ACP UMP submachine gun ), the HK94 ( derived from the MP5 ), pistol-caliber AR-15s ( such as the Bushmaster Carbon 15 9 mm Carbine ), semi-automatic only versions of the Thompson by Auto-Ordnance and the FN PS90 ( derived from the FN P90 SMG ).

Well-known examples are the Israeli Uzi and Heckler & Koch MP5 which use the 9 × 19mm Parabellum cartridge, and the American Thompson submachine gun which fires. 45 ACP.

Towards the end of the war, some Thompson submachine guns were imported from the United States ; however 450 of these were intercepted by the American authorities and the remainder only reached Ireland shortly before the Truce.

In the Prohibition Era, Hyman Lebman converted at least 5 Colt M1911s chambered in. 38 super and. 45 ACP to fire fully automatic, they were also fitted with Thompson submachine gun Model 1921 vertical grips on their dust covers, an extended barrel with muzzle brakes similar to the Thompson's, an extended 20 round magazine, and could only be fired on fully automatic.

Originally, " maschinenpistole " was simply the German word for personal, automatic military weapons, while " submachine gun " was a term coined by John T. Thompson, American inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.

They were popularized in the 1920s and 1930s as weapon of choice of American gangsters and police, in the form of the Thompson submachine gun, commonly referred to as the " Tommy Gun ".

Replica Thompson submachine gun | Thompson 1928A1 with box-type magazine.

The Thompson submachine gun program began in roughly the same period.

The Thompson submachine guns had been in development at approximately the same time as the Bergman and Beretta, but development was put on hold in 1917, when the US and the weapon's designer ( Thompson ) entered the war.

America and its allies used the Thompson submachine gun, especially the simplified M1 version that was machined not to accept the drum magazine.

Although America used box magazines in the Thompson, and Soviet submachine gunners carried only a few drum magazines ( usually one drum, if any, and remaining ammunition as box magazines ), the Suomi was mostly deployed with drums.

The Thompson submachine gun used by the sailors in the American boarding party had M1A1 Carbine folding stocks.

* John T. Thompson finalizes the design of the Thompson submachine gun in the United States.

* U. S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.

When police raided Burke's bungalow, they found a large trunk containing a bullet-proof vest, almost $ 320, 000 in bonds recently stolen from a Wisconsin bank, two Thompson submachine guns, pistols, two shotguns, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

The two Thompson submachine guns ( serial numbers 2347 and 7580 ) found in Fred Dane ’ s ( an alias for Fred Burke ) Michigan bungalow were personally driven to the Chicago coroner ’ s office by the Berrien County District Attorney.

During the interwar years, many new designs were developed, such as the Browning M2 and the Thompson sub-machine gun, which, along with others, were used in World War II.

In 2009, Joe's cousin Thomas Bonanno participated as a Mafia expert in the filming of the " Mafia vs. Yakuza " episode of Deadliest Warrior, demonstrating his skills and marksmanship with a Thompson submachine gun, as well as talking about " true " Sicilian Mafia philosophy and culture.

His locking mechanism was used first in the Thompson submachine gun.

The most famous applications of the Blish Lock were the Thompson Autorifle and Thompson submachine gun.

The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era.

The Tommy gun mostly refers to the Thompson submachine gun.

* Thompson sells BBC Broadcast – which becomes Red Bee Media ( BBC )

In 2004 Norm Thompson renamed the company who still sells Early Winters branded clothing.

It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.

Reviewing Davidson's The Testament Of An Empire Builder, for example, Thompson found that there was `` too much metrical dialectic ''.

Says Clarence Thompson: `` We dealers must earn our mark-up by performing a service for the builder cheaper than he could do it himself ''.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.

Thompson himself said: `` I want to enjoy once more the pleasure of bare walls waiting for new pictures ''.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

It is possible that its name may be based on Bon, an earlier but unrelated, and rather different, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

Finding the right method for constructing such " objective " priors ( for appropriate classes of regular problems ) has been the quest of statistical theorists from Laplace to John Maynard Keynes, Harold Jeffreys, and Edwin Thompson Jaynes: These theorists and their successors have suggested several methods for constructing " objective " priors:

Salinger, Upton Sinclair, and the journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who was primarily known for his works in the American magazine Rolling Stone.

Thompson also blamed Counter-Strike for the February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting perpetrated by Steven Kazmierczak on the day after the shooting.

This gives a large number of separate problems ; for example, the original proofs of existence and uniqueness of the monster totaled about 200 pages, and the identification of the Ree groups by Thompson and Bombieri was one of the hardest parts of the classification.

In 1996 Weston had been acquitted of the murder of Vikki Thompson at Ascott-under-Wychwood on 12 August 1995, but following the discovery of compelling new evidence in 2009 — Thompson's blood on Weston's boots — he was arrested and tried for a second time.

When Thompson was two, his father died and the financial hardship of this occurrence resulted in his and his brother's placement in the Grey Coat Hospital, a school for the disadvantaged of Westminster.

Thompson continued working for the Hudson's Bay Company until May 23, 1797 when, frustrated with the Hudson's Bay Company's policies, he left and walked 80 miles in the snow to enter the employ of the competition, the North West Company where he continued to work as a fur trader and surveyor.