Bonnie and Clyde guns fetch $210K
January 23, 2012 12:20AM
This undated photo provided by Mayo Auction and Realty shows the .45-caliber , fully automatic Thompson submachine gun believed to have been seized from outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde's Joplin hideout in 1933. This gun and a 1897 Winchester 12-gauge shotgun are being put up for auction by a Missouri family who wants to turn the weapons over to "someone with an appreciation of antique guns and the history behind these guns." (AP Photo/Mayo Auction and Realty)
Updated: February 25, 2012 8:13AM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two guns thought to have been used by bank-robbing fugitives Bonnie and Clyde have snatched $210,000 at an auction in Kansas City, Mo.
The Joplin Globe reported an online bidder from the East Coast on Saturday bought the weapons believed to have been seized from the outlaw couple’s Joplin hideout in 1933.
Sold were a .45-caliber, fully automatic Thompson submachine gun — better known as a Tommy gun — and a 1897 Winchester 12-gauge shotgun. Mayo Auction, of Kansas City, was not given permission to release the name of the buyer.
AP
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