Nice piece, if you've got the money:
Posted on 07/03/2009 8:17:16 AM PDT by re_tail20
A Colt Army Special revolver used by East Chicago, Ind., police Capt. Timothy A. O'Neil to fatally shoot John Dillinger could be yours for what auctioneers say may be much more than their conservative $8,000 to $12,000 estimate.
The .38-caliber, 5-inch-barrel gun and its holster will be auctioned at noon July 28 -- six days after the 75th anniversary of Dillinger's fatal shooting -- at Chicago's Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 1338 W. Lake. The new Dillinger movie, "Public Enemies," premieres in Chicago tonight and opens July 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
You can buy it unless you are a resident of Chicago.....
Guns don’t kill people....
Nice piece, if you've got the money:
Yeah, another great American company destroyed by unions....Colt.
It may be that the union and management both share some blame - the organization for inflexibility and the company for not anticipating changes in its key markets (as when police forces and military units began to move to the 9mm round). Whatever the cause, quality has certainly suffered after they reorganized as an LLC.
Saw the Depp/Dillinger movie last night. I liked it quite a bit. Pretty good Michael Mann crime drama. Certainly not elite, like the Godfather or The Departed ... but comparable to Heat.
SnakeDoc
I am getting a bit sick of blaming management for out-of-control unions.
The deck is stacked in favor of unions...the laws, regulatory agencies, etc. Management has little chance standing up to them.....especially in a company that does business with government, like Colt.
This whole "blame unions and management equally" is like being afraid to say that crime runs rampant among young, black males, so you blame youth of all races.
In my experience, many of those errors have to do with short-sightedness often abetted by the need to meet a government mandate rather than a market requirement. That's one reason why the unions love big government - they benefit financially from expenditures that add no value to the product and often reduce its quality while the cost is passed along to you, the consumer.
In that way, government bureaucrats get to act like they're doing something important, businesses act like they're doing their customers a favor, and the unions get to act like they give a Bleep about anything other than lining their own pockets.
I had the pleasure a few years back, through the good graces of a friend with connections at the FBI academy, to actually handle one of Dillinger’s guns, a plain-jane 1911. Got goosebumps all over thinking of who might have ended up on the wrong side of that barrel.
Saw it opening day. Great flick. Lousy history. Depp did his usual fine job. So did Christian Bale and Stephen Lang.
My family is from the Shawano area of Wisconsin. My grandpa’s sisters and my grandma used to go to dances up in that area. They grew up with Billie Freschette and were friends with her. Anyway, they knew Dillinger and used to dance with him. They said that he was a very stylish dresser and an awesome dancer. He was very quiet. I think that it is possible that the many in town helped hide him out. They lived near “Little Bohemia.” After he was killed, law enforcement had Billie go on the road and do talks on why it wasn’t a good idea to be a mobster’s girlfriend. Billie was not the “lady in red.” She was in prison at the time.
Billie was French and Indian, her family on the the local res. She was beautiful. Unfortunately, there was a great deal of prejudice then. My relatives were refused service at bars because they were thought to be Indian (they were French Canadian), and were referred to the “Indian bars.”
A whole generation grew up after the Crash of '29 not trusting banks. Many might have viewed Dillinger's work with a degree of envy.
Knowing those people, I think you are on to something. My dad was born in 1930 and hated banks. He always talked about “Bohemian Banking” where you would put your money in a can and bury it in the yard. LOL!
I thought melvin purvis shot him
thats a six shot, not five
Look at the Para Ordnance 1911s. they have some single stack pieces that would be just what you are looking for. One is basically a lightweight commander that actually seems to work with all types of 45 acp rounds.
And now para is made in florida, instead of Canada.
Melvin Purvis did shoot him along with the other officers.
It’s a six shot, five inch barreled revolver.
I’m trying to buy American from now on. Look at Kimber or Springfield Armory.
From what I’ve read since seeing the current film on July 1, Dillinger lived a short life, not surprising given his way of living. He was born 6-22-03 died 7-22-34. Ripe old age of 31. The current movie is very good. I liked it (being a woman)and I am sure men would like it even more. Depp, whom I do not like personally, gave a good performance, as did Christian Bale as Agent Purvis and I especially liked the character Billie(Evelyn)Frechette. I looked under “dillinger” on FR last night and found a good article on Dillinger’s life. It was an article posted last July.
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