Guns

Lee-Enfield Rifle

The bolt action Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle first went into production in 1895 and variants served as the British army’s standard rifle until 1957. Johnny’s prefered rifle is the SMLE Mk III (Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III) intoduced in 1907. With over seventeen million Lee-Enfield rifles produced it is hardly surprising it often appears in films of the period as the stereotypical British and Commonwealth rifle.

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Suomi M/31

Suomi M/31 is a submachine gun of Finnish manufacture prototyped in the early 1920s it went into production in 1931. It is favoured by Dirk Dangerous over the more famous Thompson because a variant with an underslung flamethrower proved useful when facing a mummy that had escaped from the Derby Museum in William Brown Street, Liverpool.

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Thompson Submachine Gun

The famous Thompson submachine gun, originally called the Annihilator I during development, entered production in 1921. It became infamous during prohibition in the US picking up nicknames including Tommy Gun, Chicago Typewriter, Chopper and Chicago Piano.

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