Auto-Ordnance TA5 Pistol

A fun semi-auto version of the iconic Tommy Gun.
American Rifleman, October 2009
By NRA Staff

The vast majority of guns reviewed on these pages are intended for fairly serious purposes: top-level target competition; personal protection; law enforcement and military service; and hunting game of all kinds. Although we conscientiously report their accuracy, reliability and shootability, we rarely comment on the fun factor of the guns we evaluate. It is thus refreshing to have the opportunity to test a gun created primarily for the simple joy of shooting: the Auto-Ordnance TA5, the pistol version replica of the Thompson Model of 1927, which itself was the original semi-automatic version of the legendary Tommy Gun.
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Taking Down A “Public Enemy”

American Rifleman, August 2009
By Jim Wilson

Most of us think of bank robbery and bank robbers in connection with the frontier days of the American West. But one of the earliest—if not the earliest—bank robberies was committed in 1831 by one Edward Smith to the tune of more than $200,000. And he did the deed on Wall Street, in New York City.

Regardless, it took those stylish boys from Missouri, the James and Younger Gang, to turn bank robbery into a regular source of income. Jesse, Frank and Cole learned their hit-and-run tactics from their guerilla service with Capt. William Clark Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson during the War of Northern Aggression, as Southerners were inclined to refer to the Civil War. The same tactics they used on Union soldiers worked quite nicely after the war, when Jesse and the boys decided that some of the banks needed to be relieved of their assets.
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