Bonnie and Clyde guns sell at auction

[bushmaster1313]

Bonnie & Clyde were members of the original cast in the radio version of the Kardashians' reality show.

 

[chud333]

I'd have to agree for that money, and if i was a collector of such pieces, it would have to have ironclad provenance. I'm also fairly certain that the B&C gang used the Mossberg Tactical Lever gun.

 

[markush]

I call bs on the whole story as the story tellers can't even agree on a price...
Bonnie and Clyde guns auctioned for $180,000 | Video | abc7.com OR Bonnie and Clyde guns bring $210,000 in Missouri auction - Yahoo! News

 

[GF]

Common knowledge. Bonnie & Clyde preferred stainless steel guns.

I believe they were Mod 60's.

GF

 

[Joe Kent]

This just goes to prove the old adage, "There is a sucker born every minute" The guns that are absolutely Bonnie Parker's and Clyde Barrow's are in the Texas Ranger Museum at Waco, Texas and The Mo. Highway Patrol Museum at the HQ. in Jefferson City, Mo.{chopped BAR}

 

[slumpy]

In all seriousness, Bonnie & Clyde have been romanticized through film and history. Whatever weapons they did own, were used as tools for robbery and killing. If I had the $ to spend, I wouldn't want to own something that may have been responsible for taking the life of an innocent civilian or LEO ... irrespective of its historical value and authenticity.

I agree with you, I would think the guns that killed them would fetch a premium, even though that would be just as hard to prove.

 

[45Wheelgun]

I was warned not to by the B&C model 60 as they had been shooting +P out of it and we all know what that means....

 

[Joe Kent]

I agree with the post by slumpy above. In fact the Remington Model 8 used by Prentiss Oakley in the killing of Bonnie and Clyde brought in the neighborhood of 64K at auction . It was absolutely there with no doubt. Also Frank Hamer's Single Action Army brought over 300K at auction.

 

[whitecoyote]

I don't see the Thompson here.

 

[lawandorder]

The guns pictured in the post above, with Bienville Parish Deputy Sheriff A. B. Rogers(not one of the Officers who shot B&C) were recovered from the death car in Louisiana on May 23 1934.

The guns in the auction in the news were supposed to have been recovered after a Barrow gang shootout in Joplin, Missouri April 13, 1933 that left Joplin PD Detective Harry McGinnis, 53 and Newton County Constable J.W. Harriman, 41 dead.

When the Barrows fled their Apartment they left several weapons behind, and an undeveloped roll of film that showed various gang members posing with weapons including a Smith & Wesson Triple Lock .44 special wearing jigged bone grips that they had taken from Springfield Missouri Motor Officer Thomas Persell when they kidnapped him January 26 1933, and took him on a joy ride.

After the shootout between the Barrows and authorities in Iowa at Dexfield Park on July 24 1933 a bushel basket of Colt 1911s was recovered from their car.

Also recovered was a S&W M&P .38 Special, SN#335772, that had been taken from the body of City Marshal H. D. Humphrey of Alma, Arkansas who was killed in a June 1933 shootout with members of the gang on U.S. Highway 71. The gun was in possession of the Alma PD up until a few years ago.

As Joe said the bulk of documented Barrow guns are in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame Museum in Waco Texas. A place anyone who enjoys firearms and history must visit if they are anywhere close.