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Huskadoodle: I thought they used Brownings

They did use a BAR but also used the Thompson

The price of such a historical weapon doesn't surprise me in the least.

I worked in a building owned by some collector that owned some historical things. As I recall he owned some Astin Martin (sp?) used in a Bond movie. He also owned the pistol used to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald and sold bullets fired from the gun for $300 each. Talk about a profit margin!

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Agreed.

Manfred J. Hattan: [img2.timeinc.net image 240x320]

It's a great piece and I'd love to have it in the store, but I can't buy any firearms manufactured after 1898. Thanks for bringing it in, though.

Yet he always insists that the gun be fired before he buys it, which is a very bad thing to do with a 130 year old gun, for a host of reasons.

Manfred J. Hattan: There's 0 percent chance that Chumley is going to lose his fingers.

really? that's too bad.

also does this gun shot? and if so then the bidders had to have class 3 licenses which should have narrowed the pool some.

and if it doesn't shot -------- why buy it. seriously, why?

" A great-grandson of Lairmore, also named Mark Lairmore, said the family no longer saw a need for the guns, which had been in a police museum in Springfield, Missouri, from 1973 until late last year."

Gotta wonder how the family feels that their donation was worth so much. And the museum turned around and sold the guns

gunblade: Before anyone else posts, how do you get the missing machine gun in Primm in New Vegas?

You know, I don't think I ever found the machine gun. I did find Vicki and Vance's hand guns and clothes somewhere miles Northeast in a building by a generator.

^{/That was a lot of words for "No", huh?}