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Pistol pulled from Bonnie Parker's bloody skirt set for auction
Msn news ^ | 12-28-13 | Tim Ghianni of Reuters

Posted on 01/03/2014 11:30:56 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae

The winning bidder will also receive historic photos and documentation of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's last stand, when the partners in life and crime were ambushed by law enforcement officers in Louisiana.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: auction; banglist; bonnieandclyde; bonnieparker; clydebarrow; frankhamer; goodriddance; knoxville; louisiana; pistol
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To: deoetdoctrinae
Dead Clyde

Dead clyde.

Dead Bonnie

Proof they didn't escape and go off to live in Mexico like so many other outlaws were said to have done after they were "dead".

Years ago, I had a man tell me that Bonnie gained 14 pounds from all the lead in her. I'm a little skeptical of it.

When she was shot she had a half eaten sandwich and a pistol in her lap.

21 posted on 01/03/2014 11:51:51 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: BenLurkin

Have to wonder if that was a movie prop gun. Would have to be a stout chick to hoist a BAR up offhand like that.


22 posted on 01/03/2014 11:53:50 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: deoetdoctrinae

Sweet, looks like a model 1902 Sporting Automatic pistol, would like to see the markings and serial number - looks like first variation, Flayderman’s 5B-220. Nice gun for any collection.


23 posted on 01/03/2014 11:56:08 AM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: doorgunner69

Had to have been something like that. The actress fired it in that shot. I’m guessing that they used as a light a load as possible.

But then the real Bonnie Parker was diminutive and she used a BAR during one of the shootouts.


25 posted on 01/03/2014 11:57:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: doorgunner69

***Guns that old that have been neglected can be ruined. ***

I bought a nice pre-WWII Czech .32 pistol a few years ago. It was perfect outside and had only been fired once when bought new back in the 1930s.

The barrel was ruined as corrosive ammo was used and the gun never cleaned.
I almost lost a barrel on my brand new Browning Hi-Power when I fired it with surplus Nazi ammo I bought back in 1968.

Luckily I realized the bore was RUSTED! BAD! from that one shooting session and cleaned it. It still had small pits from the ammo. I felt sick!

Years ago I bought an almost perfect 03-A3. The bore was almost perfect but you could barely make out pitting as it obviously had been fired with corrosive ammo and probably cleaned a few days later. It was still super accurate.


26 posted on 01/03/2014 12:00:09 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: F15Eagle

years ago, the car they were shot in, was being toured around the country. this was probably late 70’s., but I suppose its been rolled out numerous times.


27 posted on 01/03/2014 12:03:42 PM PST by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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To: BenLurkin

BAR! Back about 46 years ago, when the movie Bonnie And Clyde was on the screens, an article in a magazine said that Clyde broke into a National Guard armory and stole several BARs. He stole magazines and had them brazed together to give him more powerful firepower than a Thompson.

Ever notice how the character D W Jones (played as C W Moss in 1968) was not in the latest B&C movie?
“Dirt!”
“Dirt?”
“Dirt in the fuel line! Just blowed it away!”


28 posted on 01/03/2014 12:05:39 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: deoetdoctrinae; mickie; pax_et_bonum; hoosiermama; Maine Mariner; seekthetruth; seenenuf; ...
BONNIE PARKER'S LAMENT

Oh, Clyde took the low road
And I took the low road
And we'll be in Hades forever
And me and my true love will never kill again
After eatin' lead in the bonnie braes of Loos-iana

Leni

29 posted on 01/03/2014 12:06:13 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: BenLurkin
Not a pistol but...

...reckon Bonnie was.

31 posted on 01/03/2014 12:08:27 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: F15Eagle

have you ever been to whiskey pete’s at state line nev. it was there for several years


32 posted on 01/03/2014 12:09:38 PM PST by mt tom
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Nope. No Mexico escape for them. Texas Ranger Captain Frank A. Hamer and his posse put them in the ground. (Image taken from my visit last week to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco. A spectacular collection of custom .45s is on display there, belonging Texas Ranger Hall of Fame inductees, including Captain Hamer and his brothers who were also Texas Rangers).
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33 posted on 01/03/2014 12:14:04 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: F15Eagle

Outside a casino in Nevada, I think. More like Reno and not Las Vegas.


35 posted on 01/03/2014 12:35:37 PM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: Gamecock

I though it was a British headline and wondered who Bonnie was.


36 posted on 01/03/2014 12:39:58 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Oh yes!


38 posted on 01/03/2014 12:58:57 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: doorgunner69

My dad, who went on the beach at D-Day+3, told me it amazed him that every time he needed a replacement GI that it was the smallest guy in the squad that wanted to carry their BAR. The little guy syndrome? He never knew of course, but it always mystified him. Never failed how they wanted to most fire power they could carry.


39 posted on 01/03/2014 1:11:20 PM PST by biff (WAS)
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To: F15Eagle

That reminded me of one of those old Blood on the Highway films from driver’s-ed class back in high school.


40 posted on 01/03/2014 1:25:42 PM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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