Four Crystal police officers will not be charged in the shooting of a teenager carrying an Airsoft gun in May, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Thursday. Kahleel Thompson was shot ...

Johnathan Rosenburg, owner of Front Range Airsoft, will open for business Friday, June 15, at 104 E. Seventh St. Rosenburg, 18, graduated from Thompson Valley High school in 2011. He said his […] ...

As World War II developed, engineers found ways to simplifying the Thompson submachine gun, and later M1 and M1A1 Thompsons were easier and less-expensive to produce.

The U.S.-made Thompson Submachine Gun was developed by Gen. John T. Thompson, who envisioned a "one-man, hand-held machine gun" in .45 ACP for use in the ongoing trench warfare of World War I.