But a more storied use of the “Tommy gun,” as it was dubbed, was employed by minions of Capone, the nattily dressed king of the Chicago underworld in the 1920s and ’30s. On Feb. 14,1929 ...

And each year collectors from across the country come to the American Thompson Association shoot in Newark, Ohio, to admire and fire the old Tommy Guns that are now worth $11,000 and up.

With his pinstripe suit, big cigar and Tommy Gun he could almost be a Chicago mobster rather than Prime Minister. The Germans seized on this wartime photograph of Winston Churchill to claim the ...