You can buy it unless you are a resident of Chicago.....
Guns don’t kill people....
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 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.
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.”
I thought melvin purvis shot him