22 Apr 2020
Gangster Guns Coming to Auction
Al Capone, Auction Sales, Colt Model 1908, Colt Model 1911, Colt Thompson Model 1921, Guns, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Rock Island Auction Company
RIA will be offering some pretty serious historic collectable firearms at its Premier Auction, May 22-24, 2020: Pretty Boy Floyd’s 1911 Government Model .45 ACP Colt, Al Capone’s Model 1908 Colt .380 Automatic Pocket Pistol, and (!) a Colt Thompson Model 1921 Submachine Gun with provenance from the Dayton, Ohio Police Department describing it as “confiscated from a bank robber,” with some possible connection to John Dillinger.
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