Editing Thompson submachine gun (section)

===Non-state groups===
*The [[Provisional IRA]] and [[Official IRA]] used the 1921 variant, mainly during the early 1960s to 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/irishcivilwar.html|title=The Irish Civil War, 1922–1923|access-date=2009-09-22|author=Paul V. Walsh|archive-date=2006-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508154451/http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/irishcivilwar.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="O'Brien1993">{{cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Brendan |title=The Long War: The IRA and Sinn Féin, 1985 to Today |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dy9WENSLHyQC&pg=PA279 |publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]] |year=1993 |pages=279– |isbn=978-0-8156-0319-1}}</ref>
*[[The Angry Brigade]]<ref name="Terrorists">{{cite book |last1=Dobson |first1=Christopher |last2=Payne |first2=Ronald |title=The Terrorists: Their Weapons, Leaders, and Tactics |publisher=Facts on File |date=1982 |page=108-109|url=https://archive.org/details/terroriststheirw0000dobs/page/108/mode/2up|url-access=registration}}</ref>
* [[Azerbaijan People's Government]]<ref name="ISMG"/>
* [[Afghan Mujahideen]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://silahreport.com/2021/05/25/the-american-tommy-gun-in-the-pak-afghan-region/ |title=The American "Tommy Gun" In The Pak-Afghan Region Report |publisher=Silah Report |date=25 May 2021 |access-date=2022-02-28|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517062648/https://silahreport.com/2021/05/25/the-american-tommy-gun-in-the-pak-afghan-region/|archive-date=17 May 2023}}</ref>
* [[Brigade 2506]]<ref name="Cuba" />
* [[Front de Libération de la Côte des Somalis]]<ref>{{cite news|title=La fusillade de Loyada : Quelle balle a tué ?|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1976/02/12/quelle-balle-a-tue_2958304_1819218.html|date=12 February 1976|newspaper=[[Le Monde]]|page=7|issue=9660|language=fr}}</ref>
* [[Spanish Maquis]]<ref name="Spain" />
*  The Thompson was supplied to [[Malayan Communist Party]] insurgents during WW2, and used during the [[Malayan Emergency]]<ref name="auto"/>
* The [[Communist Party of Estonia]] received four Thompsons from the Soviet Union before the failed 1924 coup<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Отчет стрелкового полигона: пистолет-пулемет Томпсона |url=https://kalashnikov.media/article/weapons/otchet-strelkovogo-poligona-pistolet-pulemet-tompsona |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=kalashnikov.media |language=ru|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221131216/https://kalashnikov.media/article/weapons/otchet-strelkovogo-poligona-pistolet-pulemet-tompsona|archive-date=21 February 2023}}</ref>
*The [[Turkish Resistance Organization]] manufactured its own copies with parts supplied by Turkey<ref name="turkey" />