KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Two guns thought to have been used by bank-robbing fugitives Bonnie and Clyde snatched $210,000 at a Kansas City auction.
The Joplin Globe reported that 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 Thompson submachine gun, better known as a Tommy gun, and an 1897 Winchester 12-gauge shotgun. Mayo Auction, of Kansas City, didn’t have permission to release the buyer’s name.
Two police officers died in a shootout at the Joplin apartment where the couple and members of their gang were holed up, but all the members of the Clyde Barrow gang escaped.
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