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Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
09-30-2012, 08:56 PM
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/30/14162079-bonnie-and-clyde-guns-sell-for-504000

Jason McLure, Reuters
LITTLETON, N.H. - Two pistols found on the bodies of famed Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after they were killed by a posse in 1934 sold at auction Sunday for $504,000.


A snub-nosed .38 special found attached to the inside of Parker's thigh with white medical tape fetched $264,000 at an auction in Nashua, New Hampshire.

She taped the gun to her thigh, because, according to a document obtained by the auction house, "In those days, no gentleman officer would search a woman where she had it taped and there were very few women police officers."

The auction house had initially valued the piece between $150,000 and $200,000.

A Colt .45 -- valued between $150,000 and $200,000 -- recovered from the waistband of Barrow's pants -- fetched $240,000. According to a YouTube produced by the auction house, the gun was plucked from the bandit's body by Frank Hamer, the relentless posse leader who tracked Bonnie and Clyde.
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I wonder what the rifle that shot the bullet that killed JFK WOULD BRING?-Tyr

Little-Acorn
09-30-2012, 09:11 PM
I wonder what the rifle that shot the bullet that killed JFK WOULD BRING?-Tyr

The Mauser or the Carcano?

Dilloduck
10-01-2012, 11:37 AM
The Mauser or the Carcano?

You mean the Carcano that was mistaken for a mauser because the action was modeled after a mauser ? :coffee:

logroller
10-01-2012, 12:08 PM
You mean the Carcano that was mistaken for a mauser because the action was modeled after a mauser ? :coffee:
I took it mean the book repository or grassy knoll gun...Or was that a waggish riposte? If so, touché !!! :

Dilloduck
10-01-2012, 02:24 PM
Definately waggish---but Colonel Mustard did it with a lead pipe in the conservatory.