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Guns Belonging To Bonnie & Clyde Fetch $210,000 At Auction


KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Two guns thought to have been used by bank-robbing fugitives Bonnie and Clyde have snatched $210,000 at a
Kansas City auction.

It took less than 15 minutes of bidding Saturday to sell the pair of rare weapons believed to have been seized from the outlaw couple’s Joplin hideout in 1933.

The weapons were owned by the great-grandchildren of a Tulsa, Okla., police detective who was given them by a police officer involved in the raid. The weapons had spent the past 40 years in a Springfield police museum.

An unidentified online bidder from the East Coast paid $130,000 for the .45-caliber, fully automatic Thompson submachine gun – better known as a Tommy gun. The same bidder paid $80,000 for the 1897 Winchester 12-gauge shotgun.

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