Calling all crime buffs: Here's your shot at history. The .38-caliber revolver taped to Bonnie Parker’s inner thigh when
she and Clyde Barrow were killed by a Texas posse in 1934 has been made
federally compliant and will be auctioned later this week. The Colt .38-caliber Detective’s Special revolver, which was
recovered from Parker’s body by Texas Ranger Capt. Frank Hamer, had its
serial numbers obliterated in the heyday of Bonnie and Clyde's reign of
terror, prompting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
(ATF) officials to issue a new number to make the handgun legal. RR Auction in New Hampshire received the gun this summer from a
private collector and noticed that the revolver had been altered,
according to ATF officials from its field office in Manchester, N.H. The
Gun Control Act of 1968 requires firearm manufacturers to place serial
numbers on firearms and made firearms with removed, obliterated or
altered serial numbers illegal to possess. ATF special agents were then able to obtain an ATF-issued serial
number — ATF7620091 — for RR Auction, which was later stamped onto the
revolver’s receiver and making it federally compliant for an auction on
Sept. 30, when it is expected to fetch upward of $200,000.
“There can be no other gun with a closer association to Bonnie Parker than the one taped to her body at her death.”
- RR Auctions
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