TOMMY’S GUN

While it’s great to see CO2 guns that are created from the ground up, plenty of shooters love getting their hands on pellet-or BB-firing historical replicas, with the Legends series from Umarex featuring a variety of guns from the Old West to the Cold War. The latest addition to the range, the M1A1 Legendary, is of course instantly recognisable as a copy of the Thompson submachine gun, and it’s a good one too.

The Thompson was first produced in 1921. It was an expensive design, with cooling fins around the barrel, a very high rate of fire and the ability to take the classic 50-or 100-round drum magazines that made it so popular with the gangsters of the Prohibition era. The gun was subjected to a series of design changes over the years, with the military