The old fashioned Thompson is way too expensive for street level Chicago thugs.
It would be hard to shoot holding it sideways.
They don’t look modern gangsta enough either.
Originally, they were pretty cheap....nowadays, they are upwards of $1000 for semi-auto versions.
Im the movie the Godfather, if you think about Barzini’s boys at the weigh station pumping `Sonny’ Corleone with lead, they had their Thompsons canted at about 45 degrees.
But not sideways like a ghetto gangsta.