BLABM, when I noticed this post after being away from this board for a while, I knew I had to go out and buy some food and drink so that I could sit down and enjoy it properly. I did that, and wasn't disappointed. Thanks for the montage.

Al Capone had to have informants to be able to send Machine Gun to take out Aiello's hit team. That's really one of the undercurrents in stories like this. The story behind the story.

I also gravitate toward the opinion that his underworld alias was simply "Machine Gun", rather than "Machine Gun McGurn" or "Machine Gun Jack McGurn". Just a guess.

"For us, rubbin'out a Mustache was just like makin' way for a new building, like we was in the construction business."