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\\\"Nucky sells Thompson Submachine guns to the IRA stating that their claim to fame was in the trenches of WW1 when in fact the first model: The M1921 was not created until 3 years after the end of the war.\\\"
It\\\'s a bit complicated but there is actually no anachronism here. Nucky only says that it is called a \\\"trench broom\\\" and (after doing a little demonstration) that you can see why. \\\"Trench broom\\\" was, indeed, one of the [[http://proteus.brown.edu/13things/7060 commercial nicknames]] given to the gun when it was released to the civilian market in 1921 (another one was \\\"anti-bandit gun\\\" - the irony!) because the gun had been developed to be supplied in the WW1 trenches (patent is from 1915) but the first units were not completed until 1919, a year after the end of the war.
It\\\'s a bit complicated but there is actually no anachronism here. Nucky only says that it is called a \\\"trench broom\\\" and (after doing a little demonstration) that you can see why. \\\"Trench broom\\\" was, indeed, one of the [[http://proteus.brown.edu/13things/7060 commercial nicknames]] given to the gun when it was released to the civilian market in 1921 (another one was \\\"anti-bandit gun\\\" - the irony!) because the gun had been developed to be supplied in the WW1 trenches (patent is from 1915) but the first units were not completed until 1919, a year after the end of the war.
