1. Additionally, during Prohibition some officers carried Thompson sub machine guns and shotguns. 2. They also find a sub machine gun with the observer's dead body. 3. AD : M11 / 9mm sub machine gun , NIB, $ 600. 4. They were armed with rifles, sub machine guns , light machine guns, mortars and anti-tank weapons. 5. The guards were armed with sub machine guns . 6. The rifle locker held 4 M1 carbines, 4 Thompson sub machine guns , and 1911A1 45cal semi auto pistols. 7. They had learned martial arts ( judo ) and were armed with Thompson sub machine guns , sidearms and knives. 8. The Soviet Union made a similar use of MP 18 design in their PPD-40 sub machine gun in 1934. 9. To be clear, I understand that it shares chartistics with sub machine guns , and is primarily regarded as one. 10. In a subsequent attack he took over a " Tommy gun " ( sub machine gun ) and used it.