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They got them mostly from hardware stores, which would sell lumber, tools, nails, firearms etc. The military actually did not widely adopt the tommy gun like portrayed in video games because it was very expensive to manufacture, and its milling made it still expensive to mass produce.
It was used militarily but in small numbers compared to every other military firearm of normal issue, and was replaced by the m-3 greasegun in ww2 simply because of costs. Infact the tommy gun was not issued to the us military until 1938, and was starting to be phased out in favor of the m-3 by 1943.
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most of the few automatic weapons used by gangsters were stolen from government arsenals