Q: Did the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre spur calls for gun control?
On February 14, 1929, seven gangsters were machine-gunned to death in a), it earned a nickname — and a place in the country’s criminal lore. Weary of the bootlegging wars that were a byproduct of Prohibition, the public demanded curbs on the murder weapon: the Thompson submachine gun, a.k.a. the Tommy gun.