>Thompson wrote in a 1918 memo to firearms designers.: "I want a little machine gun you can hold in your hands, fire from the hip and reload in the dark. You mu

>Thompson wrote in a 1918 memo to firearms designers.: "I want a little machine gun you can hold in your hands, fire from the hip and reload in the dark. You must use ammunition now available and I want it right away." While not of the same magnitude of the actual moon landing, that must have seemed like quite a moonshot in 1918.