*Many* years ago (maybe 20?) I read an article in a firearms magazine about a highly modified Thompson submachine gun. I was not in a position to copy the article or obtain the magazine, and I’ve been looking for the subject of the article ever since. Sadly, my memory is dim on the details.
IIRC, an industrial designer – or perhaps just an artist – sometime in the 1920’2 to 1940’s chopped the bejeebers out of a Thompson, turning it into a *true* pistol… just a few inches of barrel ahead of the drum magazine, and the receiver was shortened drastically so that it ended not much aft of the pistol grip. As memory serves, the gun was described as fully functional despite the massive changes. I recall it being nickel plated or some such, and barely recogizable as having once been a Tommygun. Familiar to anyone?